Re: cvs: php-src(PHP_5_3) / NEWS

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Jani Taskinen <jani.taskinen@sci.fi> wrote: > Stanislav Malyshev kirjoitti: > > >> Sounds extremely bad and scary idea! When the hell was this decided? > >> Just imagine how error prone your scripts get..especially if any XML > >> shit is involved.. > > > > Why you'd do that if XML shit is involved? That's like saying unlink() > > is very scary idea because you can delete useful files with it. Of > > course you can misuse it if you so inclined, what can't be misused? > > There are, however, very clear use cases when it can be useful, and > > these use cases are very easily controlled and it doesn't add any > > complexity or any trouble to any of the existing code (unless your code > > has a habit of randomly setting arbitrary ini settings to arbitrary > > values). So I don't see why after ignoring my request for discussion for > > 2 weeks people wake up and act so scared. There's nothing scary here. In > > fact, there's even nothing new here, just one more use case for > > functionality that existed in PHP for ages. > > yadda, yadda.. it's another case for potential bogus bug reports arising from > the misuse of it. And you're not always in control what is used and where. > Now you force people to put something like "ini_set('short_open_tag', 0);" > in > each script to be sure it's not being enabled when before this change you could > rely on checking that it's off in php.ini and break early if it's on when your > app relies on it being off. Stas, this is the translation of what I mean behind "suddenly", as you did not get it. I strongly suggest to revert this insanity :) Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org