AW: AW: [PEAR-DEV] solution for BC breakage
| From: | Stephan Schmidt | Date: | Wed, 17 Sep 2003 07:45:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | AW: AW: [PEAR-DEV] solution for BC breakage | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.pear.dev |
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Hi,
> This is highly recommended anyways - otherwise users can't load packages
> on demand in a function. I always use $GLOBALS["_PACKAGE_MYVAR"] in my
> PEAR packages for this reason. Inside functions and methods, you can
> always use the global keyword, but the extra characters of $GLOBALS in
> top-level code translate into a heap of benefits.
Then we should add this to the CS. I'm not sure if all packages that need
global variables do it the right way[tm].
Stephan