Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist

From: Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:04:03 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist
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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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