Oh wow, feature request already exists, with a link to this thread. On 10 December 2017 at 22:41, Andreas Hennings <andr...@dqxtech.net> wrote:
> > > 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 :) >
