I think the superglobal keyword is a great idea. I have a custom class that implements a custom interface to memcache with a MySQL backend for data that drops out of memcache or is to big to be stored easily in memcache. I get annoyed at needing to include a global statement in every place I want to use memcache.
I don't think it's a good idea. Superglobals are special for a reason - if everybody would just add stuff into global space and make it superglobal because they can't type a couple of keystrokes, it would be a mess. Just declare a class and use statics or singletons.
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