> -----Original Message----- > From: p...@golemon.com [mailto:p...@golemon.com] On Behalf Of Sara > Golemon > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2017 5:29 PM > To: Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> > Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net> > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Changes to SuperGlobals for PHP 8 (was: something > about session_start...) > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > > I'd just like to add that if we were going to make BC-breaking changes > > to superglobals in PHP 8, we might as well also get rid of the name > > mangling on keys for $_GET, $_POST and $_REQUEST at the same time > > ("foo.x" becomes "foo_x" etc, because we used to have register_globals > > and needed clean variable names). > > > Excellent point. I always forget this is a thing we do and it needs to die. > Even if > we leave everything else aboue the super globals alone, this one thing should > die in PHP 8.
Agreed. Zeev
