Create a variables.php for documenting hidden variables [#620650]

Spin-off of #239825: drupal_mail(), CRLF, and Windows:

Right now, Drupal core has a heck of a lot of these hidden variables designed for ultra power users who want infinite control over things for which we can't really justify cluttering the UI to expose a setting for. We document some of them in default.settings.php, but since that file is more than long enough, we should not bother cluttering it with every single one-off variable.

To solve exactly this problem for global variables, we created a globals.php file which documents all of these and what they're for.

We should make a similar 'variables.php' to document at least the hidden variables.

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Comment #1

lilou CreditAttribution: lilou commented 2 November 2009 at 13:30

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bleen CreditAttribution: bleen commented 3 November 2009 at 03:30

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chx CreditAttribution: chx commented 5 December 2009 at 13:34

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webchick

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CreditAttribution: webchick commented 5 December 2009 at 14:46

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I'm going to downgrade this from critical. While it's still very important, this is something new we've never had before. This makes the lack of documentation around variables not a regression, so I see no reason for it to block release.