At 19:01 7/27/2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote the following:
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>> That's also not true. Is using $foo all that better than $_GET["foo"]?
>
>For a neophyte user - most definitely.
Rasmus, I disagree. As someone who's first programming language
was PHP, I remember the confusion when looking at code with
variables coming from nowhere. Denoting the origin of a variable
is simply a huge plus.
>> But it isn't. It's by fixing an inherent design flaw in PHP. The proposed
>> target situation is *NOT* any more difficult to the users than the
>> situation is today.
>
>Of course it is. $foo is conceptually simpler than $_GET["foo"]. I don't
>see how you can say it isn't.
$foo is conceptually a few keystrokes. That's all simplicity
I can see.
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And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files
were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files.
- Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7
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