On 18 November 2010 15:22, Zeev Suraski <z...@zend.com> wrote: > As much as I'd like to see magic quotes burning in hell (had the option to > kill them when they were small, but unfortunately didn't), I'm wondering > whether the people +1'ing are thinking about the potential consequences to > doing this, and if they're also volunteering to respond (nicely!!) to the > endless complaints, flames, and just general "what happened???!!!" mailing > list emails that may flood us when this happens. With 6.0, we talked about > having prepend-scripts that emulate magic quotes available, since like it or > not - there are probably billions of lines of code out there that rely on the > existence of magic quotes.
I already help support users on IRC — good support channels have been recommending against the use of magic quotes for ages anyway. Yes, killing magic quotes will likely increase the support workload for a time, but I do think it's worth it because in the longer run it'll force people to write better code. Having it deprecated in the 5.3 series seems like sufficient warning to me. At any rate, pulling the trigger and removing it from trunk will help get the word out long before 5.4 has a stable release. I mean, I take the point about it seeming sudden from a userland perspective, but I just think the pros (vastly) outweigh the cons here. Adam -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
