Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:17885 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 45551 invoked by uid 1010); 12 Aug 2005 17:54:24 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 45535 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2005 17:54:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Aug 2005 17:54:24 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([82.94.239.5:52118] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id A5/37-33075-E42ECF24 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:54:23 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7CHsKPb001099 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:54:20 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7CHsH72001087; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:54:17 +0200 Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:54:16 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Rasmus Lerdorf cc: internals In-Reply-To: <42FCE0E4.604@lerdorf.com> Message-ID: References: <42FCE0E4.604@lerdorf.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jdi-ict.nl Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6.0 Wishlist From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Since we are breaking a lot of stuff in 6.0, at least with > Unicode_semantics=On I am wondering if it may not be time to break some > more stuff and do a bit of spring cleaning. It would mean many apps > would need some work to work on PHP 6, but at the same time I think it > is work people would welcome since it would mostly involve removing > hacks instead of adding them. And yes, I know this is pretty > controversial, so take a few deep breaths before replying, please. > > 1. Remove register_globals completely +1 > 2. Remove magic_quotes_* +1 > 3. Add input filter extension which will include a mechanism for > application developers to very easily turn it off which would swap > the raw GPC arrays back in case the site had it turned on by default. +1 > 4. Include an opcode cache by default. A lot of work has gone into > pecl/apc recently, but I am not hung up on which one goes in. +1 > 5. Remove safe_mode and focus on open_basedir +1 (I'd say remove both though ;-) > 6. Remove some stuff that has been marked deprecated since PHP 3/4 +1 > A couple of others that we could consider, but I don't actually think > wins us much apart from academic purity (which I have never been all > that keen on) are: > > 7. Make identifiers case-sensitive You mean: make *all* identifiers case-sensitive? (Currently varnames are already case-sensitive). If you meant all: +1 > 8. Remove various function aliases +1 Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org