note 8657 added to Variable variables

This is one thing that I have noticed that dosn't work quite the way it should: $x[5] = 'foo'; $y = 'x[5]'; $$y = 'bar'; printf("%s %s\n",$x[5],$$y); The output will be 'foo bar' when it should be 'bar bar'. Is there a way to fix/get around this? Or am I wishing for the impossible? http://www.php.net/manual/language.variables.variable.php