Re: Variable variable

> "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> wrote: > > > 1. If $id is a number I believe PHP will choke b/c I don't believe > numbers > > > can be used as variable names. > > > > Well, generally that is true. If you try to assign a value directly to a > > variable that is a number such as: > > > > $1 = "Hello World"; > > > > Then it won't work. However, due to a somewhat quirky implementation you > > can get arund this by doing: > > > > $a=1; > > $$a = "Hello World"; > > Sure enough, it works. Rasmus, can we expect this behavior to exist in > future releases of PHP? I prefer to give variables a meaningful name, but > since I spend a fair amount of time working with other people's code and > clients who sometimes insist on things that aren't preferable, it would be > nice to know. Writing code that relies on this behaviour is a bad idea. It is unlikely to change in PHP 4, but who knows what will happen in the longer term... -Rasmus