Re: Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #5289 Updated: Use of reset on a global array creates local array in function

"Alan Frostick" <alan.frostick@iconmedialab.com> wrote ... > To my mind the fact that a given variable is defined global > should be retained after using unset, it should merely > initialise the array to empty but keep it global for further > references in the function. If you just want to initialise the array to empty why not do exactly that with $arr=array() instead of using unset($arr). After you unset($spoon), it is not that $spoon is now local, it is that there is no $spoon. You recreate it - as local - when you first use it again after unset().