[RFC] list() Reference Assignment

Good evening again, Previously I wrote to this mailing list about my proposal to add reference assignment to list() with a new syntax ("[PHP-DEV] Proposal: Implement FR #7930 (list() constructor reference assignment)"). I have now opened an RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/list_reference_assignment In brief, this allows you to write this: $array = [1, 2]; $a = $array[0]; $b = &$array[1]; Like this instead: $array = [1, 2]; list($a, &$b) = $array; Reference assignments with list() work just like normal assignments, and you can still skip variables, use nested list()s, and use list() in foreach as usual. There is a patch with a passing test, however a memory leak bug was found (thanks Nikita!), and so the patch can't be considered complete or final yet. I'm something of a novice at debugging PHP code at the moment, so any help fixing that would be appreciated, but I will try to fix it when I have more time. The patch is here: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=6768 The RFC has been added to the list in Under Discussion. Any thoughts, suggestions, etc. appreciated. Regards, -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/