On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 9:06 PM Stanislav Malyshev <smalys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! > > > Nah, by-ref is pretty much avoided in OSS packages, but we can surely > > survey the ecosystem to verify this. > > I literally work with code that uses references every day. So may be you > haven't encountered it but the attitude of "nah, never happens" I think > is a bit misplaced. > Also please remember not all PHP code is latest composer packages. In > fact, most of it isn't. > I do work with code like that: the teams maintaining these codebases are actively removing by-ref calls when they encounter them. Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/
