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[Fluxx]

Naming, oh god yes, the naming. Nothing is consistent with naming functions at all. My favorite example of this is the aptly named "parse_str" function:

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-str.php

[IgorPartola → Fluxx]

Ah that one is my favorite. The second parameter is optional, but if you don't pass it in it's a noop. Don't really get where that came from.

[andfarm → IgorPartola]

Ohohoho. No... if you omit the second parameter, PHP sets variables from the query string in your local scope. Surprise! It's register_globals all over again.

[IgorPartola → andfarm]

Wow. That's so fantastic I can't even describe it. I can't imagine how much buggy software there is out there because of this.