Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:15023 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 55894 invoked by uid 1010); 16 Feb 2005 16:16:41 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 55809 invoked from network); 16 Feb 2005 16:16:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Feb 2005 16:16:40 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.74.107.235 mail.zend.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([80.74.107.235:44082] helo=mail.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 1.2 (r4437)) with SMTP id 19/F2-13867-59173124 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:15:21 -0500 Received: (qmail 13299 invoked from network); 16 Feb 2005 12:14:54 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO zeev-notebook.zend.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Feb 2005 12:14:54 -0000 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20050216141319.08bc9730@localhost> X-Sender: zeev@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:14:52 +0200 To: "Steph" Cc: "Ilia Alshanetsky" ,"Andi Gutmans" , "Jani Taskinen" , In-Reply-To: <003f01c513ee$3ff174a0$6402a8c0@foxbox> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20050215142521.0214d340@localhost> <4212B78D.1010809@prohost.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20050215214736.021b4030@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] Fix for bug #31440 (GLOBALS can beby G/P/Cwhen register_globals=On) From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski) At 08:10 16/02/2005, Steph wrote: >- I'd agree to that more if we didn't have barriers there already. But we >do. > >Did you see the sitepoint blog today? Barriers are not binary, they accumulate. The more barriers you introduce, the less people are likely to migrate. Discontinuing register_globals is equivalent to introducing a fortified wall barrier for large code bases. Zeev