Posted by Torgny Bjers on 08/14/05 01:30

Jochem Maas wrote:

> if you haven't seen it yet and are interested in the future
> of php you might be interested in the _big_ thread on php-internals
> that starts with the message:
>
> http://www.manucorp.com/archives/internals/200508/msg00398.php
>
> IMHO every halfbaked php coder should read it ;-)
>

I suppose I am halfbaked. Maybe even a bit burnt and crispy on the
edges, Jochem.

Greatest news I've heard in a long time. Remove register_globals and
magic_quotes_*! Wow. Well, considering that they've been the cause for
most of the simpler PHP hacks that could have been prevented had not
register_globals been active. :P

I am not so sure that removing function aliases and making identifiers
case-sensitive is academic purity alone, though. I consider that a very
good step towards more easily managed code, that way there's only one
function, and no aliases, or case-specific variations thereof.

After reading the responses to Rasmus' post I am delighted to see that
most of the list has agreed to this as well, splendid. Some of these
were what I had expected for 5.x though, so in part I am disappointed
that they were not already removed/implemented.

/Torgny

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