Re: nested functions

On Wednesday 16 May 2001 12:12, Hannes Schmiderer wrote: > elias wrote: > > good question...I might need an answer when you get one. > > Why? > Ok, I have a perl-counter script which is included to shtml-pages with > SSI. Now I want to add some PHP pages to my site. So I need a > PHP-function that does the same as the perl-script does. In the script > I have a lot of global variables and some auxiliary functions. In PHP > these variables became local variables of the counter() function and > the auxiliary functions became nested functions. The auxiliary nested > functions have to have access to a lot of variables from the counter() > function, and they even have to change them. I already added all the > variables (some with call by reference) but I think it would have been > easier if I had access the counter()-variables within the nested > auxiliary functions direct. What about using classes instead of outer functions? Classes provide rather nice (nestable) scoping. -- Christian Reiniger LGDC Webmaster (http://sunsite.dk/lgdc/) "Software is like sex: the best is for free" -- Linus Torvalds