Re: Should the engine be able to pass variables by reference of userland functions
| From: | Jordan LeDoux | Date: | Wed, 19 Oct 2022 16:58:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Should the engine be able to pass variables by reference of userland functions | ||
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 7:37 AM Kamil Tekiela <tekiela246@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