On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 10:40 Claude Pache <claude.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Le 28 juil. 2019 à 21:12, Marco Pivetta <ocram...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > 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 > > Do your teams actively remove direct calls to array_push() and > array_multisort()? In any case, I’m sure that most PHP developers don’t. > Yes: usually replaced by `[]` or wrappers of those functions that de-reference the variables, so that no references are used. >
