Re: Changes to SuperGlobals for PHP 8 (was: something about session_start...)

On 28 July 2017 at 16:11, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote: > ftr; I'd vote in favor of several BC breaking things to do with autoglobals, among them: > >* Make them objects (though ArrayAccess based for less hostile BC breakage) Why objects? Although these are kind of just about related things they don't require being in a class/interface. Designing classes/interfaces to be correct the first time is a really difficult thing to do, and then maintaining classes/interfaces is hard as any change to a method is a BC break. I feel pretty strongly that 'just' using a set of function to read the data would be the correct thing to do as: i) they are easier to maintain. ii) They allow people to composite them into objects easily. iii) They're simpler to use in code. > I've seen too many codebases abuse GPCER vars as a generic storage > Restricting their mutability would be a win. Or we could just leave the global mutable variables alone, and just introduce the new set of functions to get the original unmodified data, which would be inherently read-only. That allows everyone who wants to move away from mutable state to do so, leaves current applications working, and we can have the lovely-and-not-at-all-depressing "WHY ARE YOU TERRIBLE PEOPLE BREAKING WORKING CODE!!1!" conversation as a separate discussion; one that doesn't get in the way of allowing people who'd prefer to move forward with saner global state. cheers Dan