Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags

2019-07-16 Thread Theodore Brown
Seems good to me. Short tags have long presented a risk of code leakage and lack of portability, since they are dependent on an ini setting which not everyone has enabled. Hopefully this can land in time for PHP 7.4. From: Nikita Popov Sent: Monday, June 17, 201

Re: [PHP-DEV] Stop replacing dots with underscores in query, post and cookie parameters for PHP 8?

2019-07-16 Thread Nikita Popov
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 2:34 PM Bishop Bettini wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:51 AM Nikita Popov wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:40 AM Arnold Daniels < > > arnold.adaniels...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > PHP replaces dots with underscores for $_GET, $_POST and $_COO

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: hebrevc() and other 'contentious' 7.4 proposed deprecations

2019-07-16 Thread G. P. B.
On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 17:00, Zeev Suraski wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 7:34 AM G. P. B. wrote: > >> The RFC process establishes a consensus when 2/3 of the voters agree, >> which is currently the case. >> > > As the author of that RFC, I can tell you with complete confidence that > deprecat

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: hebrevc() and other 'contentious' 7.4 proposed deprecations

2019-07-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 7:34 AM G. P. B. wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 16:18, Zeev Suraski wrote: > Secondly the word you are looking for here is "unanimity"/"unanimous" as > per the Cambridge dictionary [1]: > >> *If a group of people are unanimous, they all agree about one particular >> matt

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: hebrevc() and other 'contentious' 7.4 proposed deprecations

2019-07-16 Thread G. P. B.
On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 16:18, Zeev Suraski wrote: > Given apparently nobody has paid any attention to this email (both in terms > of my support of deprecating hebrevc(), and my request to reconsider > supporting proposals with substantial numbers of 'nay' voters) - I'm > resending it one more tim

[PHP-DEV] Re: hebrevc() and other 'contentious' 7.4 proposed deprecations

2019-07-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
Given apparently nobody has paid any attention to this email (both in terms of my support of deprecating hebrevc(), and my request to reconsider supporting proposals with substantial numbers of 'nay' voters) - I'm resending it one more time for consideration: On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 2:33 PM wrote

Re: [PHP-DEV] Stop replacing dots with underscores in query, post and cookie parameters for PHP 8?

2019-07-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 5:34 AM Bishop Bettini wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:51 AM Nikita Popov wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:40 AM Arnold Daniels < > > arnold.adaniels...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > PHP replaces dots with underscores for $_GET, $_POST and $_COO

Re: [PHP-DEV] Stop replacing dots with underscores in query, post and cookie parameters for PHP 8?

2019-07-16 Thread Bishop Bettini
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:51 AM Nikita Popov wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:40 AM Arnold Daniels < > arnold.adaniels...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > PHP replaces dots with underscores for $_GET, $_POST and $_COOKIE. This > > behavior once made sense because of Register globals. The e

Re: [PHP-DEV] Stop replacing dots with underscores in query, post and cookie parameters for PHP 8?

2019-07-16 Thread Nikita Popov
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:40 AM Arnold Daniels wrote: > Hi, > > PHP replaces dots with underscores for $_GET, $_POST and $_COOKIE. This > behavior once made sense because of Register globals. The explanation in > the manual also still implies that query and post parameters are converted > to vari