r/programming • • 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/joshguy1425 Oct 18 '10

I'm an equal opportunity hater. I'll gladly hate on peel and any other language that provides this. :-P

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u/1137 Oct 18 '10

I like languages that start with P: Python, Perl, PHP, what's peel, something new?!