To be completely blunt, this change has no chance of making it into PHP. If you want it, you will have to maintain your own patch.
-Rasmus Lerdorf, BDFL-PHP, php.internals
To be completely blunt, this change has no chance of making it into PHP. If you want it, you will have to maintain your own patch.
-Rasmus Lerdorf, BDFL-PHP, php.internals
Having to bite your tongue on internals Sean?
I listened to last weeks podcast with interest when you discussed the read-onlyness of internals to non-contributors and I couldn't agree more.
It would be better if you added context to this post.
Rasmus was refering to a patch which would let you define your own superglobals in addition to the _GET _POST _COOKIE etc superglobals, pointing out that this (mis)feature could cause serious maintainability problems.
Just a clarification for people who don't follow internals and got here via PHPPlanet.
I actually left context out on purpose, because this quote applies to what seems like the majority of php.internals traffic, lately (though I'm sure it's not as widespread as it seems).
S
*nods*,
Totally, bt I'm still glad internals is open. This allows for some great conversations(mny of which can/have been taken off of internals). I would like to see people simply post to the correct "newsgroup"/list. But the increased traffic on internals is, to me, a good thing. It just goes to show our popularity . . . *cough* superiority *cough* . . . LOL; I'm mostly being sarcastic[please no flames].
*back to what Rasmus was responding to*,
I laughed through most of this thread since if anyone wanted to hav these options there is already PECL's runtime extension which lets any body implement user defined auto-globals. But even beyond that, &PHP 5.x in general. Any possible need(that would come close to sane) will be addressed by namespaces(in PHP 6). Which I'm just giddy about.
Once PHP supports true threading I'll finally feel comfy defending PHP as my primary language. I'm truly loving PHP 6 &what I've been able to implement in my current project. I've been using PHP along with more languages than I'm bored enough to try to write here. But I've love experiencing PHP's `virtual` organic growth since I started playing with it(early version 2.?). &Its been awesome. as the years have passed, I've been able to say &feel "Well I don't _have_ to use (insert programming/scripting language) any more." Its PHP's openness that has made PHP truly "our" language. Far beyond &unlike any other language. &PHP's openness includes it's dev. teams, cycle, teams, cvs, &even groups/lists. Yep even internals.
I'd hate to see _any_ of that openness disappear. It'd prolly even leave me feeling disgusted. I'd mch rather put up with occasional nutters(who are still btw developers or contributors-in some many at least).
And hey if nothing else it always makes me laugh when they finally get smacked down. . . LOL.
&Btw thnx for re-posting this; if we could only make this kinda disclaimer like part of the verification e-mail - that "might" clear up some of these request &in fighting that always follows. But than again I'm prone to wishful thinking.
Take care ^_~