if this gets rid of a significant amount of implementation complexity or runtime overhead, i'm all for it, and don't think i've ever seen code like $GLOBALS = []; before,
given that it's technically a BC break, would have been nice as a 8.0.0 thing, but i hope it's small enough for an 8.x instead of waiting for php9 On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 12:04, Nicolas Grekas <nicolas.grekas+...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Nikita, > > > > I would like to propose the following RFC, which restricts certain rare > > usages of $GLOBALS. This change will improve performance, reduce internal > > implementation complexity, and fix a very large class of bugs relating to > > $GLOBALS handling in internal functions. > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/restrict_globals_usage > > > Yes please! This will allow removing some black magic from Symfony's > VarDumper component, which detects these "copies" of $GLOBALS: > https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/31ee43a8c67897a2f61782060965f5c8a81f58a2/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Cloner/VarCloner.php#L144-L155 > > Nicolas -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
