Hey Volker, > Am 01.07.2026 um 15:32 schrieb Volker Dusch <[email protected]>: > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 6:44 PM Bob Weinand <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On "Deprecate changing by-reference return modifier via inheritance" - how >> exactly is this a LSP violation? If you assign a value without explicit "&" >> it'll be by-value, regardless of it being reference or not. If you put "&" >> there, you intentionally want a reference and you will get a warning when >> trying to use it. There's no magic "this value was a reference, hence this >> behaves differently now" in PHP, but references trivially decay to values, >> when used in a by-value context. >> This is basically covariance. There's no need to change this, and I assume >> there was a logic error from the author of that suggestion. > > Hi Bob, > > Sorry for the late reply. > > Thank you for the correction. Would you suggest I remove that sentence > from the proposal or that I retract the proposal?
Given that it seems the whole argument in favour of that deprecation is flawed, I would suggest a complete retraction. Thanks, Bob
