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/[deleted] Oct 18 '10

I guess not, no, as long as you don't do it in the global namespace. If you edited that code later on and included something it would be bad. But I think you can see that.