Re: [RFC] Keep type of reference params
| From: | Matthew Brown | Date: | Mon, 04 May 2020 13:01:44 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Keep type of reference params | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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This would break quite a lot of existing code, though PHP could add an
explicit keyword like "inout" that catches this behaviour (see example in
Hack: https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/functions/inout-parameters).
Today these issues can also be caught with static analysis:
https://psalm.dev/r/1f670956ab