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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Constant arrays
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On 19/12/11 21:23, Paul Dragoonis wrote:
> Barbu,
>
> This is how constants work in all viable languages such as C/++.
I disagree. In C you can have:
const data foo[] = { { "Data1", 2 }, { "Data2", 78 } };

It's not unusual in php to have a complex structure that won't change
in a variable. It should be an array, but as array is not allowed as
content,
you need to leave it as a static variable that you won't never change.