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--- rfc:on_demand_name_mangling [2019/07/16 12:24] – Updated to contemporary PHP versions and readied for vote. bishop
+++ rfc:on_demand_name_mangling [2019/07/16 12:25] (current) – Settled on formal polyfill name, php_mangle_superglobal bishop
@@ Line 62: / Line 62: @@
 <?php
 print_r(get_defined_vars());
-mangle_superglobals();
+php_mangle_superglobals();
 print_r(get_defined_vars());
 ?>
@@ Line 87: / Line 87: @@
 </code>
-In this new implementation, the engine no longer mangles marshaled superglobals at startup.  Instead, the //ability// to mangle names has moved to an optional, userland-provided polyfill function ''mangle_superglobals()''.
+In this new implementation, the engine no longer mangles marshaled superglobals at startup.  Instead, the //ability// to mangle names has moved to an optional, userland-provided polyfill function ''php_mangle_superglobals()''.
-In the example above, an ''a_b'' key was externally supplied. The call to ''mangle_superglobals'' clobbered the original value of ''a_b'' with the value of the //last// seen mangle-equivalent key (''a[b'').
+In the example above, an ''a_b'' key was externally supplied. The call to ''php_mangle_superglobals'' clobbered the original value of ''a_b'' with the value of the //last// seen mangle-equivalent key (''a[b'').
 Importantly, the user made this mangling happen: the engine did not do it automatically.