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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:50:31 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Constant arrays
From: dragoonis@gmail.com (Paul Dragoonis)

2011/12/19 =C1ngel Gonz=E1lez <keisial@gmail.com>:
> 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[] =3D { { "Data1", 2 }, { "Data2", 78 } };

Agreed, i was more thinking of #define (not const), when setting up
values such as 'MAX_LEN', being a typical use case for PHP.

>
> 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.
>