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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 09:58:12 -0700
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To: Kamil Tekiela <tekiela246@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Should the engine be able to pass variables by
 reference of userland functions
From: jordan.ledoux@gmail.com (Jordan LeDoux)

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On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 7:37 AM Kamil Tekiela <tekiela246@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>

Pass by-ref is used a LOT in the wild, but I didn't interpret George's
question as "should we remove pass by-ref from userland entirely". Surely
the engine also supports pass by-ref somewhere in the VM as well as the
place that was mentioned, it just does it in a different way?

Jordan

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