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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Question about superglobals
From: larry@garfieldtech.com (Larry Garfield)

On Saturday 17 November 2007, Sam Barrow wrote:
> As i said you guys do have a point. But when you say leave custom
> superglobals to runkit, you might as well leave them to my patch.
>
> You have to specifically declare superglobals, just like in runkit. No
> difference between this and using runkit except ease of use.

Exactly.  I don't want it to be easy for incompetent programmers to write code 
that is physically impossible for me to maintain, because I *will* inherit it 
and I will lose hair trying to figure out why the frel this variable is doing 
something weird in random cases.  

I see it in a similar light as register_globals.  Yes, one can write secure 
code with register_globals on.  But it's so much easier to write code that 
isn't a nightmare to maintain if you start with it off.  We should *not* be 
making it easy for programmers to write unmaintainable code.  Writing code 
that is going to make me want to kill the programmer who wrote it should be 
difficult, not easy. :-)

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