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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:13:54 -0700
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To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6.0 Wishlist
From: sterling.hughes@gmail.com (Sterling Hughes)

+1 to all things here.

-Sterling

On 8/12/05, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:
> Since we are breaking a lot of stuff in 6.0, at least with
> Unicode_semantics=3DOn 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.
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> 1. Remove register_globals completely
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> 2. Remove magic_quotes_*
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 5. Remove safe_mode and focus on open_basedir
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> 6. Remove some stuff that has been marked deprecated since PHP 3/4
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> 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:
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> 7. Make identifiers case-sensitive
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> 8. Remove various function aliases
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> -Rasmus
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