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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] register globals -> PHP6 still replaces . in variables from outside
From: sv_forums@fmethod.com ("Stan Vassilev | FM")

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:57, Stan Vassilev | FM <sv_forums@fmethod.com> 
> wrote:
>>> I don't see it would work with something like
>>> import_request_variables() unless thats removed or extract(), which is
>>> some of the reasons for this replacement feature afair.
>>>
>>
>> There was never a need for the replacement to occur for the GPC
>> superglobals.
>
> Isn't that fixed already?
> I could have sworn seeing a commit from Ilia that allowed dots in the
> superglobals (duplicating the key, one with dot and one with
> underscore) some months ago...?
>
> -Hannes

It's not fixed, if it was, it was not checked in. In the 5.3 nightly, 
foo.php?a.b.c = 10 shows up as $_GET['a_b_c'] in PHP

Regards, Stan Vassilev