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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Deprecating "global" + $GLOBALS, making $_REQUEST,
 $_GET, $_POST read-only
From: james.butler@edigitalresearch.com (=?windows-1252?Q?James_Butler?=)


-----Original Message-----
From: Ilia Alshanetsky [mailto:ilia@prohost.org]=20

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Andrey Hristov <php@hristov.com> wrote:
> =C2=A0Hi guys,
> the topic says most of it. What do you think about deprecating the global
> keyword and $GLOBALS with it=3F Together with this making $_REQUEST, $_GET and
> $_POST read-only as they should be used only to read-only anyway.


I do not believe that making these read-only is going to yield any
performance benefits and
the chances of this breaking many scripts is quite large.

-1

Ilia

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One other potential negative...

By making them read only, are you removing the ability to scrub/delete them=3F Surely this is bad point=3F

J