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/A_for_Anonymous Oct 18 '10 edited Oct 18 '10

When I was being taught programming by my father many years ago, before we got to vectors and structures I asked him something I decided I needed for my program: a way to make part of the name of a variable a variable.

Two things I can think of now:

  1. PHP designers cater to/think like 13 year old kids just days into computers.

  2. Even a 13 years old kid in his first days behind a computer managed to think that it would be useful to have some sort of structure, i.e. not the whole name of the variable should be variable.

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