Re: Deprecating "global" + $GLOBALS, making $_REQUEST, $_GET, $_POST read-only

Andrey Hristov wrote: > I am not against global variables, I'm against usage of $GLOBALS and > "global". So how do you support global variables by banning the two ways they can be accessed? -1 >> From a Framework point of view, they should save all of the >> (super)global variables from the global scope, because the frameworks >> doesn't use/run code in the global scope except the bootstrap, so >> they couldn't access that either, but they won't know what the >> developer who uses the framework want's to access from the global scope. >> And what about global constants? They are also screwing up the >> Dependency Injection, and the static functions/properties, and the  >> singletons also.  Should we ban those? > > no, you got me wrong. I will repeat - global variables won't cease to > exist, but $GLOBALS and "global" as means to access them should be > removed. If a function needs data it should get it passed to it. That's like trying to forbid TSRMLS_FETCH() in php source saying "just use TSRMLS_DC instead". Sure it is a nice goal but a) That's not always feasible [without rewriting an insane amount of code] b) It's not a restriction that should be imposed by the language.