[wp-hackers] Magic quotes "on" forever?

[Otto]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:32 PM, John Blackbourn
<johnbillion+wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Additionally, removing magic quote emulation would mean that plugins
> would have to go back to checking for get_magic_quotes_gpc() (or a
> similar WordPress function) and the whole reason WordPress emulates
> magic quotes in the first place is to avoid this. So maybe we're stuck
> with this forever?

...maybe it'll go away when we move to PHP 5. ;-)

-Otto