Re: [RFC] On-Demand Name Mangling

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/01/2016 03:09, Bishop Bettini wrote: > >> But, even without a setting, there's an escape hatch: userland can >> polyfill >> the mangling behavior using extract. The updated RFC demonstrates an >> algorithm. >> > > I'm not that comfortable with requiring / encouraging the use of extract() > - a rather awkward function which clobbers your local variable space in > unpredictable ways - to write the polyfill. The fact that the clobbering is > necessary / useful for extract() is wholly unrelated to the need for BC in > super-global arrays. > > It would be more useful to expose a method or regex constant to userland > so that the mangling can actually be done in place on appropriate arrays: > I've updated the on-demand name mangling RFC <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/on_demand_name_mangling> in light of all feedback so far. The crux being: - If an app requires name mangling: - As of 7.1, the app will get one E_NOTICE per startup warning of the impending removal of name mangling - As of 8.0, the app will need to include a polyfill package and add one line of code to its bootstrap. (Safe to include the polyfill prior to the release of 8.0.) - If an app does not need name mangling, there's no effect, no notices, nothing needed Thanks!