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From: Andrey Hristov [mailto:p...@hristov.com] 

>James Butler wrote:
>> +1 million because GLOBAL scope is horrid (generally) and is thoroughly 
>> abused
>> -1 million because it will be the most horrific BC break since time began 
>> and I imagine it will break so much code that is currently in the wild...

>how hard it will be to grep for "global" and $GLOBALS?

Not hard for you or I but what about the beginners out there, will they know 
how to find them or work around the use of globals?

>> In short I like it but I'm not sure how it would ever get implemented 
>> without breaking stuff... (this is where the clever core developers can 
>> propose some easy method I can't think of right now)

>INI variable, like register_globals

Sorry, I wasn't being very clear there, what I really meant to say was will 
there be the will to remove it considering the effects.
I suppose INI is enough to allow it to be easily changed, but would it ever 
become a default setting of off, rather than something that can be optionally 
off?



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