Re: Why is the default value for arg_separator.output '&'?
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:39:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Why is the default value for arg_separator.output '&'? | ||
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On Tue, April 19, 2005 4:05 pm, Roger B.A. Klorese said:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Tom Rogers wrote:
>> You can set this with arg_separator.output in php.ini
>
> That doesn't really answer why the choice was made to default to what
> not only shouldn't be the default, but should probably be illegal
> altogether.
Errrr.
Some of us don't *USE* XHTML (blech!)
Why in the world should we be forced to follow your narrow-minded
so-called "standard"? :-)
Furthermore, the & as separator pre-dates & by *years* and billions of
lines of code could be affected by altering the default.
So, really, Backwards Compatibility alone makes this a no-brainer default
value of: &
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