On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 7:37 AM Kamil Tekiela <tekiela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am not sure if we should still support it. But I don't think it's > unthinkable to expect such feature from PHP. However, personally, I don't > find pass-by-ref that useful in general. The question is whether this > feature is used a lot in the wild. > > If we decide to drop support for this, it should probably go through a > deprecation phase. > > Regards, > Kamil > Pass by-ref is used a LOT in the wild, but I didn't interpret George's question as "should we remove pass by-ref from userland entirely". Surely the engine also supports pass by-ref somewhere in the VM as well as the place that was mentioned, it just does it in a different way? Jordan
