[development] namespaced global variables [WAS: Drupal 6.2 theme system standalone]

[Victor Kane]

Don't want to start a whole discussion again on this, but the adoption of OO
paradigm eliminates the need for most globals in the first place.

That's the advantage, along with a lot of others...

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Adrian Rossouw <adrian at bryght.com> wrote:

>
> On 14 Jun 2008, at 5:00 PM, Syscrusher wrote:
>
>
>> If we're talking about that kind of a major change, is it time to
>> revisit the question of whether Drupal should use PHP's OOP features,
>> now that the PHP language has better OO support than it did several
>> years ago?
>>
> how is that a major change ?
>
> we simply find all occurences of global and $GLOBALS, and replace it with
> context_get.
>
> we will also be able to track whenever global variables change because you
> need to use context_set to use them,
> so it's impossible to fsck up your site by accidentally wiping out globals.
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/attachments/20080614/585e412d/attachment.htm