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		jhgg on Oct 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Drupal Core – Highly Critical Public Service annou... Looking at the patch that fixed the vulnerability [0], I think it's a pretty safe bet to say that having a hybrid array/key-value store [1] is a generally terrible idea. [0]: https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/SA-CORE-2014-005-D7.patc... [1]: http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php

las_cases on Oct 30, 2014 [–]

I don't agree with you, I believe it is wrong to blame the tool for your mistakes. I agree that it may be debatable how much of the screw ups in the PHP world is actually inherited behavior from how easy and permissive PHP is to work with (perhaps a truism though and nothing to debate about).

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