php to do input validation...

[Matthew Wirges <wirges () purdue edu>]

I thought this was interesting...

http://news.php.net/php.internals/14474

Turns out that there may be input filtering in PHP's future. Maybe even 
in the next release of 5.x.  Read that thread for more information.

My question for webappsec, is do you think its a good idea for a 
programming language to add this sort of functionality?  Does it coddle 
users?  Does it give a false sense of security (especially if they 
aren't implemented right)?  Or do the positives outweigh the negatives?

Cheers,
-matt
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