Why can constants only be scalars?

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