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Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 17:33:21 -0700
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To: Nathan Rixham <nrixham@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why does $_REQUEST exist?
From: mike503@gmail.com (Michael Shadle)

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@gmail.com> wrote:

> bc? all the reasoning in the world won't justify it to 1 million businesses
> running php 4 code which is reliant on $_REQUEST behind the scenes.
>
> although it would generate a tonne of freelance work :p

that code has to change for 5.3 or 6.0 anyway.

now is the time to yank out some of the legacy crap. we don't want PHP
to be like windows, do we?