I'm actually disgusted to see how many people use extract in bad ways! As some others here have mentioned, I've never found a legitamate reason to use extract -

I'm actually disgusted to see how many people use extract in bad ways! As some others here have mentioned, I've never found a legitamate reason to use extract - and the php documentation clearly mentioned not to use it on input data. Example: https://github.com/search?l=PHP&p=1&q=extract%28%24_GET%29%3B&ref=advsearch&type=Code https://github.com/search?l=PHP&p=1&q=extract%28%24_GET%29%3... Yuck...