Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Since we are breaking a lot of stuff in 6.0, at least with > Unicode_semantics=On I am wondering if it may not be time to break some > more stuff and do a bit of spring cleaning. It would mean many apps > would need some work to work on PHP 6, but at the same time I think it > is work people would welcome since it would mostly involve removing > hacks instead of adding them. And yes, I know this is pretty > controversial, so take a few deep breaths before replying, please. > > 1. Remove register_globals completely +1 > 2. Remove magic_quotes_* +1 > 3. Add input filter extension which will include a mechanism for > application developers to very easily turn it off which would swap > the raw GPC arrays back in case the site had it turned on by default. +1 > 4. Include an opcode cache by default. A lot of work has gone into > pecl/apc recently, but I am not hung up on which one goes in. +1 > 5. Remove safe_mode and focus on open_basedir +1 (I'd say remove both though ;-) > 6. Remove some stuff that has been marked deprecated since PHP 3/4 +1 > A couple of others that we could consider, but I don't actually think > wins us much apart from academic purity (which I have never been all > that keen on) are: > > 7. Make identifiers case-sensitive You mean: make *all* identifiers case-sensitive? (Currently varnames are already case-sensitive). If you meant all: +1 > 8. Remove various function aliases +1 Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org