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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Adieu register_globals
From: lsmith@php.net (Lukas Smith)

Zeev Suraski wrote:

> The point is that breakage is aggregated, not binary.  The more stuff we 
> break, the more difficult it is to port, and frankly, it's quite likely 
> that a non OO app could migrate fairly cleanly even to PHP 6 with 
> unicode disabled (perhaps with minor fixes).  get_magic_quotes_gpc() is 
> designed for apps to do something differently depending on the value of 
> magic_quotes_gpc.  It's fine that it's always off in PHP 6, but there's 
> no reason not to keep this function (to always return false) so that you 
> don't have to fix God knows how many lines of code to remove it.

yes .. php script thats worked with gpc off (and that had some code to 
detect if its on and act accordingly) should still work without change.

regards,
Lukas