Re: Suggestion: global variables being accessed in localscope

Guilherme Blanco wrote:

Brian,I am sorry about the message indentation... Seems PHP-Internals list does not like M$ Live(r) Mail!

Please use plain text mail as your messages are a PITA to read, thanks.

you can see, the only change needed is in a throw-able error (Undefined variable), which does a second look-up in the symbolTable.Doing this, you do not need to use $GLOBALS nevermore! And also, global can

You didn't grasp two of the major PHP features (not bugs!): 1. Every variable you access inside a function is local unless explicitely imported (through $GLOBALS, global or superglobals) from the global scope. 2. Accessing undefined variables is normal and not an error (not everybody agrees here but lots of people consider this a big plus). Changing this would turn PHP into a completely different language so it's simply not going to happen. If you don't like these basic concepts it's probably a good idea to switch language. Regards, - Chris