With the removal of bad legacy features like register_globals, magic_quotes_gpc, and safe_mode combined with new features like array de-referencing and traits,

With the removal of bad legacy features like register_globals, magic_quotes_gpc, and safe_mode combined with new features like array de-referencing and traits, I'm really excited for PHP 5.4. :) For anyone who's curious, here's a list of the changes in 5.4 alpha 1: http://www.php.net/releases/NEWS_5_4_0_alpha1.txt http://www.php.net/releases/NEWS_5_4_0_alpha1.txt