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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6.0 Wishlist
From: ondrej@kmit.sk (=?UTF-8?B?T25kcmVqIEl2YW5pxI0=?=)

Hi

> 1. Remove register_globals completely
> 
> 2. Remove magic_quotes_*
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 5. Remove safe_mode and focus on open_basedir
> 
> 6. Remove some stuff that has been marked deprecated since PHP 3/4
> 
> 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
> 
> 8. Remove various function aliases

+1 to all things here.

9. Shared memory storage for variables with transparent access. 
(superglobal array?)

-- 
Ondrej Ivanic
(ondrej@kmit.sk)