Le mar. 30 juil. 2019 à 10:34, Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 07:14, Nicolas Grekas <nicolas.gre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I think enough time has passed since php4's call-by-ref for the syntax to > > be > > reused now. I think it's unfair to call the RFC a reminiscent of > > call-by-ref BTW. > > > > > Firstly, please let's stop calling this a "PHP 4" feature. It was fully > supported right up to 5.2, deprecated in 5.3, and only removed in 5.4. > > Secondly, I completely disagree that it's unfair to compare the two. The > syntax being proposed in this RFC (& at both call-site and definition-site) > was supported by versions prior to PHP 5.4. Those versions left it optional > at either side, which was certainly a mistake; but it was perfectly > possible (and probably common) for coding standards to require it in both > locations. > > It might be a good idea to include a more thorough discussion of this > history in the RFC. > Call-time pass-by-reference is deprecated since PHP 4.3.0 and triggers a deprecation warning since then: https://3v4l.org/MFXsJ That's since Dec 2002.
