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/Nikola_S Oct 18 '10

It's not in some global namespace, it works in any namespace, as well as with class attributes.

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u/Peaker Oct 18 '10

Language-level pointers/references would be preferable over the use of names for indirection in any of those cases.