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  • Diana
    care to post the link to that interview?

    NOTE: This comment was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by Your Common Sense

  • Robin
    its on sitepoint from memory, whats with the down vote. im not saying i agree.

    NOTE: This comment was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by gus

  • Diana
    nevermind, I guess I've found it myself. it seems you confused magic quotes with register globals and for some reason call it "fairly recent" instead of "a whole decade old" one.

    NOTE: This comment was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by Your Common Sense

  • Robin
    oh yeah so i did well spotted Col.

    NOTE: This comment was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by gus

  • Wayne
    Sorry, I don't understand how this relates to my question...I'm not asking which is the best approach, nor the differences between addslashes and m_r_e_s. I'd just like to know the reason behind wordpress code, if possible of course

    NOTE: This comment was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by Damien Pirsy

  • Robin
    Damien, your question requires some guesswork unless your one of the developers of wordpress. I think the others have covered the most likely scenarios as to why but its all speculation. Despite the responses some interesting facts are en.wordpress.com/stats

    NOTE: This comment was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by gus