I agree on all points. Case sensitivity would be nice IMO, but I can
continue to live without it.
--Wez.
On 8/12/05, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:
> Since we are breaking a lot of stuff in 6.0, at least with
> Unicode_semantics=On I am wondering if it may not be time to break some
> more stuff and do a bit of spring cleaning. It would mean many apps
> would need some work to work on PHP 6, but at the same time I think it
> is work people would welcome since it would mostly involve removing
> hacks instead of adding them. And yes, I know this is pretty
> controversial, so take a few deep breaths before replying, please.
>
> 1. Remove register_globals completely
>
> 2. Remove magic_quotes_*
>
> 3. Add input filter extension which will include a mechanism for
> application developers to very easily turn it off which would swap
> the raw GPC arrays back in case the site had it turned on by default.
>
> 4. Include an opcode cache by default. A lot of work has gone into
> pecl/apc recently, but I am not hung up on which one goes in.
>
> 5. Remove safe_mode and focus on open_basedir
>
> 6. Remove some stuff that has been marked deprecated since PHP 3/4
>
> A couple of others that we could consider, but I don't actually think
> wins us much apart from academic purity (which I have never been all
> that keen on) are:
>
> 7. Make identifiers case-sensitive
>
> 8. Remove various function aliases
>
> -Rasmus
>
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