From 58d9d5ea5d40ea553888529728d5ff5bce675358 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Boren <ryan@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:12:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove return by ref from get_role(). Props scribu, elyobo.
 fixes #18237

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@18476 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/capabilities.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/capabilities.php b/wp-includes/capabilities.php
index 446264ec1e..86b3d85574 100644
--- a/wp-includes/capabilities.php
+++ b/wp-includes/capabilities.php
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ class WP_Roles {
 	 * @param string $role Role name.
 	 * @return object|null Null, if role does not exist. WP_Role object, if found.
 	 */
-	function &get_role( $role ) {
+	function get_role( $role ) {
 		if ( isset( $this->role_objects[$role] ) )
 			return $this->role_objects[$role];
 		else