RE: [PHP-DEV] Deprecating "global" + $GLOBALS, making $_REQUEST, $_GET, $_POST read-only
| From: | James Butler | Date: | Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:27:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] Deprecating "global" + $GLOBALS, making $_REQUEST, $_GET, $_POST read-only | ||
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From: Ilia Alshanetsky [mailto:ilia@prohost.org]
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Andrey Hristov <php@hristov.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> the topic says most of it. What do you think about deprecating the global
> keyword and $GLOBALS with it? Together with this making $_REQUEST, $_GET and
> $_POST read-only as they should be used only to read-only anyway.
I do not believe that making these read-only is going to yield any
performance benefits and
the chances of this breaking many scripts is quite large.
-1
Ilia
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One other potential negative...
By making them read only, are you removing the ability to scrub/delete them? Surely this is bad
point?
J