At 17:42 06/08/2001, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>On Mon, 06 Aug 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> > By the way, if it's really important, we can look into supporting it. The
> > way it was before - it worked in most cases (assuming you never tried to
> > use a class before you dl() the corresponding extension), but could result
> > in crashes in other cases.
> >
> > I don't think it's very important, though. dl() should most probably be
> > deprecated from the language, as it's not supported in thread safe mode,
> > it's slow and insecure. It also creates a host of interesting
> bugs/buglets
> > that are difficult to hunt and fix. Other than that - it's great :)
>
>Deprecate dl()? I think it's one of the most useful functions... :)
How so? I can understand that people get used to it, but it's really
bad. extensions should be loaded in the php.ini file. There's really no
good reason for using dl() over the php.ini method.
Zeev
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