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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Why can constants only be scalars?
From: jason@ionzoft.com (Jason Garber)

Was this considered?

$GLOBALS['foo'] = array('bar', 'baz');

function oink()
{
     echo $GLOBALS['foo'];
}


~Jason

At 5/13/2004 11:29 AM -0400, 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