Re: [RFC] Explicit call-site send-by-ref syntax

Hi! > I would rather discourage usage of references. Since PHP 7 the cost of > breaking cow isn't as expensive anymore, but receiving values by value > and returning by value is more idiomatic imo. Using objects can be more > efficient. Objects are kind of overkill when you just need a modifyable array. And copying an array when you just need to add one value to a K-size array is still not a good idea for many apps. O(n) vs O(n^2) still matters. One should definitely be careful not to overuse refs, but there are still valid cases for using them. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com