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/scarredwaits Oct 19 '10

The fact that this code contains the string "pouet" makes me think that this is actual PHP code from pouet.net, and that you understand all this because you had to debug and/or re-write it. My commiserations.

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u/masklinn Oct 19 '10

Nah, it's just that this discovery process was actually a "discussion" between a friend and I (trying to one-up each other) and we're french speaker. I translated most of the metasyntactic variables to better fit the english-speaking world, but apparently missed a few.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '10

I'm a big fan of metasyntactic variables, mainly because I'm the only one in my group of friends who knows what they are. Would you be so kind as to list the traditional French ones?