Hi, On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 5:45 PM, Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> wrote: > > ftr; I'd vote in favor of several BC breaking things to do with > autoglobals, among them: > > * Make them objects (though ArrayAccess based for less hostile BC breakage) > * Make most of them read-only (offsetGet(), but no offsetSet) > * Make $_SESSION[...] access produce an error or auto-start the session > > I've seen too many codebases abuse GPCER vars as a generic storage > location because "globals are bad, but this is good because it doesn't > include the word global". As a performance issue, the runtime has to > assume autoglobals are inherently volatile and could change on a whim > at any moment (much like $http_response_headers). Restricting their > mutability would be a win. The request globals could probably also be > optimized fairly significantly. > > If anyone agrees, I'm willing to RFC it. If not, I'll continue living > with it. :D >
Yes, please! -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
