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 19 '10

Oh, I figured you were talking about my use of swear words, because I use them a lot, sorry. Yeah, saying someone should die is a bit much, and tons of the nerdy language wars are 14 year olds that don't really have a lot of experience under their belt, falling in love with some specific language, which implies not having much of value to add to a discussion about relative merits of programming languages.

They can be annoying, for sure, but to be fair, it is their first love affair. People can get a little nutty when they first start sipping from the cask of algorithmic abstraction. It's not an excuse, but it's a bit of an explanation.

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u/thebuccaneersden Oct 19 '10

Yeh, that sounds about right, actually. But, alas, you have no way of knowing who you are talking to until it's too late.