Re: Re: [RFC] Explicit call-site send-by-ref syntax
| From: | Marco Pivetta | Date: | Sun, 28 Jul 2019 13:01:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [RFC] Explicit call-site send-by-ref syntax | ||
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On Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 04:47 Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I think nowadays it is well known that by-reference passing is to be
> > avoided and I don't see it particularly commonly in user code.
> By-reference
>
> I don't think it's true. It depends on the style of coding, of course,
> but there are many situations where the most convenient solution is
> by-ref passing, mostly when single function can change more than one
> thing.
Nah, by-ref is pretty much avoided in OSS packages, but we can surely
survey the ecosystem to verify this.