Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:118848 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 21039 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2022 14:37:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO php-smtp4.php.net) (45.112.84.5) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 19 Oct 2022 14:37:35 -0000 Received: from php-smtp4.php.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by php-smtp4.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF20180539 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2022 07:37:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on php-smtp4.php.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT, FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-ASN: AS15169 209.85.128.0/17 X-Spam-Virus: No X-Envelope-From: Received: from mail-qv1-f41.google.com (mail-qv1-f41.google.com [209.85.219.41]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by php-smtp4.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2022 07:37:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-qv1-f41.google.com with SMTP id i9so11506228qvo.0 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2022 07:37:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=MAYuzap4W3wIjzslZynwpAWYBu7yTsNTeYHR4BovhJ8=; b=dH8axdhd7CRez4qZSgEzlw1d+ysgM7CuLcwS6VP2GTTOrUuRksI7oj0Zu7BJcgrpC0 OBWY/b/dQQeNX7xLmBt94pHbIw0fujZo09gXznH2nw+dM0N7wiOQZ3EX1VppSrevaEcr gYZZ5Z9O3kI4c067NOLocBJnNQx0EoPb8dR4DpOhW6VGdv7WF46FoydqTlP6uhdOUwNw +ya2FeLB77IjzhHRXR5U5UNGDaTkIRYnRuzo20wdb9FJvB0yIUNii4JOIPkGg65R5k4J Dxtwmwzb0XTr0bxYe836QdklvtlVgim5mwFJ2yb0K2VIYenjnLpRpf4x9zBPeNPNbnYt bZNg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=MAYuzap4W3wIjzslZynwpAWYBu7yTsNTeYHR4BovhJ8=; b=aayw3BDJqsiZg74yfdbLVpaKT0J+qM/dD+SuEHTSgwmYW6ceRZNU4Oe6L/JKWmrBiB XKdLWFtrkEePC/w4K//LY9q5dNd4Ik1VmK9XHJZL+caTY90vVvqEOzR1TmxPqdQ2wCu8 vhSCUmk2TyjRFtkCPeZdSuSXIX8FBP6o1otLMJfPQcSodnWja5iutFBZrepNaJ6ZO1OM g1EW7mO8g8IAmHZ32Zh6R4EHszRzhBqQgXjeGcly3KIsIeSR4WiVwQnkbsfoPKf6Q0lg AciM7bwvTF3KL8qNASo/Wtyyh0SdGq/XvgqQeskc7l6rycIJ87GgEWJlRYZbWTeFfa7+ FNnw== X-Gm-Message-State: ACrzQf0OZlM0bhvmpE+JYx/kz1cz99OeR42BRwQXXEXkj5kr1Mm8bioq epDrVyLbYr7wosCoCkWM3CkFgZBzLGjk12xhgBI= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AMsMyM5BA1Ts2zWnO+2hAiuVrBLpSalE/7yoXfwRmQQRsGvFfhnti3HSxDMyJl5VafY85YsXvm2z9M30qOJvobc8tc8= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6214:1bc8:b0:4b1:b217:cce9 with SMTP id m8-20020a0562141bc800b004b1b217cce9mr6844715qvc.31.1666190254345; Wed, 19 Oct 2022 07:37:34 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:37:23 +0100 Message-ID: To: "G. P. B." Cc: PHP internals Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000003d10a205eb6426da" Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Should the engine be able to pass variables by reference of userland functions From: tekiela246@gmail.com (Kamil Tekiela) --0000000000003d10a205eb6426da Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" 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 --0000000000003d10a205eb6426da--