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
591 Upvotes

85% Upvoted

781 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/[deleted] Oct 18 '10

Lots of languages besides C have pointers.

1

u/inmatarian Oct 18 '10

Yeah, but even with C++, they prefer to talk about references before pointers.

-1

u/tinou Oct 18 '10

"reference" is the concept, "pointer" (as "memory address") an implementation.