Re: Why can constants only be scalars?

Sean Coates wrote:

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

That is one more word (to type) to access the variable, each time. If you acces a variable more than once in the function you would probably like to declare it global (the usual way). Or even extact($GLOBALS['my_globs']); which would be a hash of all globals one usually needs. I don't see much of advantage here. The most frustrating case would be one usage of a global per function. "superglobals" would save a lot of typing. The suggested method wouldn't. This discussion is theoretical anyway because Andi already said "no" ...