Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist

From: Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:24:25 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist
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On Aug 13, 2005, at 9:06 PM, Jani Taskinen wrote:
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, George Schlossnagle wrote:
On Aug 13, 2005, at 5:08 AM, Ondrej Ivani wrote:
9. Shared memory storage for variables with transparent access. (superglobal array?)
-1. This is hard to make consistent across all platforms, and will break instantly when you go past 1 machine, making it confusing and of marginal usage. 
    Maybe this could be something that ext/session could provide.
    I sure can find some uses for a 'global session'.
That seems like a reasonable to go. I question it's utility a bit - how often is this really useful? For large objects (like a real cache), this isn't the best place to store it, for most resources it won't work at all. So what's a typical use case for this? George

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