Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Make compact function reports undefined passed variables

[Gabriel Caruso]

>
> Hi Gabriel,
>
>> compact(), extract(), parse_str() (with 1 argument) and
>> get_defined_vars() are bad functions, because they access local variables
>> indirectly.
>>
>> They might be considered to be removed in the next major PHP version,
>> despite of this fix.
>>
>>
>> Thanks. Dmitry.
>>
>>
>
> Hello Dmitry.
>
> Thanks for this feedback. When I decided to create this RFC adding a
> warning, many of friends actually suggested me creating an RFC depracting
> `compact`, and complaing with the same arguments as yours.
>
> Do you think we should do this already in PHP 7.3?
>
> Thanks.
>
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Gabriel Caruso