On 29.05.2018 at 16:18, John wrote: > Thanks for your reply Christoph. From your and other comments it appears that I > can't do what I was trying to do. > > On the one hand, it is satisfying that I wasn't making a mistake; on the other, > I sure wish there was a way to avoid passing all these variables in PHP! In a > way it makes the "function" command far less valuable than it should be! On the contrary, I'd say! If I see a variable inside a function body, I almost immediately know that it is a local variable or a function parameter (or a superglobal), unless there is a global “declaration”. Even better, each time I add a global “declaration”, I'm reminded to think of a better way to express myself, and if I see a lengthy list of globals, I know that the code will be hard to maintain. See also <http://wiki.c2.com/?GlobalVariablesAreBad>. -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
