Re: Re: Question about superglobals

True. What if we created a php.ini directive that defaulted to off that would determine the ability to declare superglobals, "allow_superglobals" or something. On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 22:18 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Sam Barrow wrote: > > Just to make sure you understand me correctly, these are not at all > > undeclared globals (as you said). You have to specifically turn on the > > variables you want to be superglobals. > > They are undeclared in the individual functions where they are used. > You can declare them all you want in your part of a large project, but > the fact is that they end up in the superglobal namespace and developer > #2 working on another part of the code has no idea that you made up your > own superglobal and what used to be a function-local variable in his > code suddenly isn't anymore. > > -Rasmus