Hi, On Mi, 2017-12-06 at 20:49 +0100, Nikita Popov wrote: > Hi internals, > > I'd like propose optional support for explicitly marking by-reference > argument passing at the call-site, in addition to the declaration- > site: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/explicit_send_by_ref >
I would rather discourage usage of references. Since PHP 7 the cost of breaking cow isn't as expensive anymore, but receiving values by value and returning by value is more idiomatic imo. Using objects can be more efficient. johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
