magic quotes were a terrible idea, the first thing my php does is strip and magic quotes if they are enabled I think namespaces will be a nice addition, and th

magic quotes were a terrible idea, the first thing my php does is strip and magic quotes if they are enabled I think namespaces will be a nice addition, and theres a few cases of nice syntactic sugar being done. the icu and xml libraries bundled / enabled looks like a good move as well