> On 8 Dec 2017, at 5:16 pm, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: > > "Now expressing the same thing in two different ways, with or without & is > confusing, so I think one needs to think about if old syntax should be > deprecated in 8.0" would be a massive BC break
That wasn’t in Rowans suggestion, it was in Björn’s response to the original message. You’re either not reading who wrote what before you reply, or you’re deliberately trying to imply a person has advocated for something they never even mentioned. Even *if* the consensus was to drop support for & references in php8 - thats a major new version, with AFAIK, literally no planned ETA, of any kind.
