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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecating "global" + $GLOBALS, making $_REQUEST,
 $_GET, $_POST read-only
From: php@hristov.com (Andrey Hristov)

  Hi Lester,
Lester Caine wrote:
> Andrey Hristov wrote:
>> You probably got me wrong. The code will be broken and can be fixed.
>> It's not like going line by line and checking whether everything will
>> work. I'm tired of explaining this.
> 
> SO you are happy to do all that work for us for free?
> Only recently has PHP4 been dropped from support, but there are STILL a 
> large number of projects that rely on it simply because no one has the 
> time to rework years of code. GOOD CODE at the time it was written which 
> is why the applications are still in use today.
> 
> Currently most of MY time is being spent testing site after site on the 
> current builds of PHP5 and the other related base packages simply 
> because 'little improvements' mean that some legacy areas DON'T work. I 
> don't get paid for wasting that time and I certainly don't want 
> additional work ( like dropping 'function' ) simply because someone 
> thinks THEY know best !!!
> 
I understand you well.

I am taking back my proposal. Discussion is over as the idea found no 
support.

Best,
Andrey