Re: [RFC] Removal of deprecated features

On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > safe_mode/register_globals/register_long_arrays/magic_quotes_*/allow_call_time_pass_reference > - Something we have long time been wanted to remove from PHP, I don't > see a big reason to keep those in the next version, even if its going > to be a 5.4, since we already removed things like > zend.ze1_compatibility_mode. See the magic quotes RFC[4]. +0 > session_register/session_is_registered/session_register > - Only needed for register_globals, Hannes removed those in PHP6. +1 > enable_dl > - Is this really worth keeping, since dl() was disabled on almost all > SAPIs except for CLI/CGI/Embed? -1 > Support for "continue" and "break" operators with non constant operands > - Removed by Dmitry in PHP6. -1 — unless there is a very good reason for removing them. > y2k_compliance > - From the manual "Enforce year 2000 compliance (will cause problems > with non-compliant browsers)", we are in 2010, we should remove this > option and enable it by default and remove the checks. Perhaps Derick > got an insight here? +1 — It's a switch, much like "make_it_faster". Can be safely removed. > Class named constructors > - A feature thats been marked in the manual as something that would > be removed in a future version of PHP6. It was not to be knowing ever > decided to be kept or not, but now with the recent removal of them in > namespaces then I don't see a big point in keeping them. -1 Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug