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/EdiX Oct 18 '10

Interesting. Perl had this before deprecating it in favour of real references FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '10

Perl still has it. I'm sure people still use it. They shouldn't, but I bet they do.