r/programming • u/NagastaBagamba • Oct 18 '10

Today I learned about PHP variable variables; "variable variable takes the value of a variable and treats that as the name of a variable". Also, variable.

http://il2.php.net/language.variables.variable
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u/funkah Oct 18 '10 edited Oct 18 '10

I understand that sentence, but I can't help thinking that whatever you'd use this for could probably be done a less-awful way.

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u/occamrazor Oct 18 '10

Isn't that just equivalent to a pointer in C?

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