On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi internals, >> >> The RFC >> >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/forbid_dynamic_scope_introspection >> >> is now in voting. The vote closes on 2016-05-24 with a required majority >> of 2/3. >> >> Nikita >> > > Thanks to a comment on Reddit, I realized that the function list in the > RFC is missing "assert() with a string argument" as a forbidden function. > The reason is that assert() with a string is really just a different way of > saying eval() -- so it will inherit the parent symbol table and may modify > it. I missed this because the function was also missing from the opcache > indirect var access list (remedied in [1]). > > I hope it's not a problem to add this case to the RFC even though it's > already in voting. > > Nikita > > [1]: > https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/b65b15c6f470cc3397ff7719d92cecc762c803e9 > The RFC has been accepted with 39 votes in favor and one against. The implementation has landed in [1]. As mentioned previously, assert() with a string argument (aka eval) is also part of the final implementation. Nikita [1]: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/91f5940329fede8a26b64e99d4d6d858fe8654cc