[development] RFC: new variable API for D6?

[Derek Wright]

i've been thinking about our settings and variable_get()/set() a lot  
recently.  i was hit by inspiration earlier tonight:

http://drupal.org/node/145164

it'll take quite a bit of effort to get it into D6 before the freeze  
(probabl more than i can handle myself, especially since i'm also  
working on moving update_status.module into D6 core, too).  please  
comment in the issue:

http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/145164

thanks,
-derek (dww)