note 9095 deleted from language.references.return by sniper

From: Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 01:25:17 +0000
Subject: note 9095 deleted from language.references.return by sniper
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Note Submitter: nospam@steem.com ---- What I think this is doing is making $foo a reference to the returned data. Instead of having $foo being a copy of the returned data. So this is a lot more efficient, especially if return'ed data is large. I could be offbase here though, as I have been wrong at least once before. It would be cool if it was possible to make this the default behavior for functions, I don't see what would change by making this so. Except more efficient code, obviously. Although there's probably a good reason I'm missing why it isn't the default. Maybe this is why I don't design languages? :)

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