note 7995 deleted from Variable scope by ronabop

Dear Anonymous: Well, sure. If I try to take advantage of a powerful programming concept, and break my code because I forgot something essential, well of COURSE that's my fault, not the langauge's. Should go without saying. Hence with global variables: they can be very useful when used right, and I appreciate a language that lets me do useful things. The human possibility of forgetting that a variable is global is not an effective indictment of the global variable concept! See, the price of a langauge that lets you do useful things has always been a langauge that lets you do bonehead screwups too, but hey, that's just another reason why "C++ For Dummies" should never have been written. It would be nice if PHP allowed a global GLOBAL. Instead of having to say "GLOBAL $a, $b" at the beginning of every function, I'd like to introduce my variable in the global scope as "GLOBAL $var" and then have it visible from all functions and sub-scopes.