Re: Why can constants only be scalars?

Ilya Sher wrote:

We discussed this issue with Jevon Wright (private emails) and in the end of the day agreed that most simple yet powerful solution is "superglobals", which would work like $_GET,$_POST etc.

This can be accomplished in user-space, by cheating the existing $_* superglobals (if you must -- cowiki does this, IIRC): <?php $_SERVER['foo'] = array('bar', 'baz'); function oink() { print_r($_SERVER['foo']); } oink(); ?> S