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To: Stephen Reay <php-lists@koalephant.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Explicit call-site send-by-ref syntax
From: bjorn.x.larsson@telia.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Bj=c3=b6rn_Larsson?=)

Den 2019-07-29 kl. 20:00, skrev Stephen Reay:
>> On 29 Jul 2019, at 22:34, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I guess what I had in mind was that *in the long-term*,
>> out/inout parameters would replace & parameters,
> Excuse my ignorance (presumably about the complexity involved) if this is obvious, but if out/inout parameters are considered to be a better solution for the problem references generally solve (I don’t doubt that they are, even as a user of references), why is that inherently a “long term” goal? Is it not a feasible goal for next years release?
>
> Cheers
> Stephen

To replace current PHP way of handling parameters is for sure a 
long-term goal,
just imagine the BC break...

To introduce out/inout parameters without phasing out references is probably
a shorter goal to accomplish.

r//Björn L