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Capturing a return value

 
<?
function countdown($top) {
    while ($top > 0) {
        print "$top..";
        $top--;
    }
    print "boom!\n";
}

$counter = 5;
countdown($counter);
print "Now, counter is $counter";
?>
  
  








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