Ron Korving writes:
 > Personally, I think include is just fine the way it is.

Google for "php security flaw".  Do you think *that's* fine the way it
is?

Clearly, the fact that you can turn this behavior off suggests that
somebody has noticed that it's badly designed.  Rather than say, as
some people have, "Well, just turn it off if you don't like it" or
"Well, program around it by checking your data" or "php isn't a
babysitter", it would be better to fix the flaw in the language that
requires the flag to turn off the misdesigned behavior.

If the very first thing you have to do with a language feature is make
sure that it doesn't function as designed (which is to execute hostile
content with local privileges), then clearly the design of that
feature is wrong.

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