On 7 December 2017 at 03:04, Stanislav Malyshev <smalys...@gmail.com> wrote: > > All this to achieve no other benefit but a purely cosmetic one which a > good IDE could easily deliver to you for free without changing language > syntax. I do not think it is worth it. >
I agree with Stanislav, this should be the IDE's job. PhpStorm can already show parameter name hints in function calls. It could easily add a feature to show if a parameter is by-reference. In fact I will request this as we speak :)