Re: 'God' has spoken... :-)

Torgny Bjers wrote:

Jochem Maas wrote:

if you haven't seen it yet and are interested in the future of php you might be interested in the _big_ thread on php-internals that starts with the message: http://www.manucorp.com/archives/internals/200508/msg00398.php IMHO every halfbaked php coder should read it ;-)

I suppose I am halfbaked. Maybe even a bit burnt and crispy on the edges, Jochem.

:-)

Greatest news I've heard in a long time. Remove register_globals and magic_quotes_*! Wow. Well, considering that they've been the cause for most of the simpler PHP hacks that could have been prevented had not register_globals been active. :P I am not so sure that removing function aliases and making identifiers case-sensitive is academic purity alone, though. I consider that a very good step towards more easily managed code, that way there's only one function, and no aliases, or case-specific variations thereof. After reading the responses to Rasmus' post I am delighted to see that most of the list has agreed to this as well, splendid. Some of these were what I had expected for 5.x though, so in part I am disappointed that they were not already removed/implemented.

the problem is BC. given that so many massive changes are scheduled for what will become 6.0 that will entail BC breakage anyway the core guys seem to think its a good point to break some more. I think it's sensible, breaking BC is a dangerous thing to do and not to be taken lightly when you have a user base as massive as that of php. in the mean time we have a faster 'execution model' to look forward to in 5.1 - _faster_ OO code! yippee :-)

/Torgny