Re: AW: AW: [PEAR-DEV] solution for BC breakage
| From: | Tomas V.V.Cox | Date: | Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:01:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: AW: AW: [PEAR-DEV] solution for BC breakage | ||
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On Wednesday, September 17, 2003 9:45, Stephan Schmidt wrote:
> 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].
It is already there:
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.naming.php
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