Re: how long will REGISTERED GLOBALS be around?

For what it's worth - casting my vote - I would vote that the PHP/Zend people keep REGISTER_GLOBALS as an option for one main reason: NEWBIES! Think of how nice it is for the total newbies to be able to have this first tutorial: <?php print "Hello $myname"; ?> <form action="<?php print $PHP_SELF; ?>"> what is your name? <input type="text" name="myname"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"> </form> Think of how many PHP-CURIOUS people it'd turn off if you could ONLY do it with $_REQUEST["myname"] Hell - I *still* have to go to the php.net announcement page to remember the syntax of the new type. It doesn't come naturally. Nothing like $variablename. I think the EASE of the form example, above, is what got me into PHP in the first place.