id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
18237,get_role triggers a PHP notice,elyobo,ryan,"get_role (in wp-includes/capabilities.php) incorrectly returns a null value as a reference, triggering a PHP notice ""Only variable references should be returned by reference"".  

While this is not a terribly important problem, it is easily resolved with the patch attached (just assign the value to a variable first, then return that).

This is a more important issue for us because we develop using a custom error handler which throws ErrorExceptions on all notices.  This helps to catch a range of PHP errors (e.g. typos, uninitialised variables and whatnot), but is sometimes a PITA because of things like this.",defect (bug),closed,normal,3.3,Users,3.2.1,minor,fixed,has-patch,