Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:33234 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 73290 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Nov 2007 02:03:19 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 73274 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2007 02:03:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Nov 2007 02:03:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:43376] helo=mx1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 05/C7-14070-46D9F374 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:03:18 -0500 Received: from us-ex1.zend.com ([192.168.16.5]) by mx1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:03:13 +0200 Received: from [192.168.17.92] ([192.168.17.92]) by us-ex1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:03:04 -0800 Message-ID: <473F9D58.5080203@zend.com> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:03:04 -0800 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Barrow CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <8D.46.01128.768AD374@pb1.pair.com> <1195246391.21084.15.camel@sbarrow-desktop> <1195250285.4012.6.camel@johannes.nop> <1195251014.21084.20.camel@sbarrow-desktop> <473E349E.3050704@swplumb.com> <1195259494.10547.2.camel@sams-room> <0E6C7DB2-4126-4660-A813-E21C03045247@caedmon.net> <473E5F4F.2020508@swplumb.com> <6743D10C-4AE9-4974-B0C3-3A632A0326F1@caedmon.net> <1195273116.12249.28.camel@sams-room> In-Reply-To: <1195273116.12249.28.camel@sams-room> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Nov 2007 02:03:04.0545 (UTC) FILETIME=[27D1E510:01C82987] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Question about superglobals From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) > You say that superglobals were not designed to be user defined, think > about it, the concept of a superglobal is present in C and C++, two of > the maturest and strictest languages around. Concept of inserting assembly code is in C and C++ too. That doesn't mean it's a good idea to add it to PHP. C and C++ are low-level languages that were designed for giving people "enough rope". PHP is not so. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com