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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 21:12:14 +0200
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To: Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Explicit call-site send-by-ref syntax
From: ocramius@gmail.com (Marco Pivetta)

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On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 9:06 PM Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > Nah, by-ref is pretty much avoided in OSS packages, but we can surely
> > survey the ecosystem to verify this.
>
> I literally work with code that uses references every day. So may be you
> haven't encountered it but the attitude of "nah, never happens" I think
> is a bit misplaced.
> Also please remember not all PHP code is latest composer packages. In
> fact, most of it isn't.
>

I do work with code like that: the teams maintaining these codebases are
actively removing by-ref calls when they encounter them.

Marco Pivetta

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