Variable variables seem pretty cool, but I can’t think of a scenario where one would actually use them in a production environment. What would such a scenario be? How were they used?
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Variable variables seem pretty cool, but I can’t think of a scenario where one would actually use them in a production environment. What would such a scenario be? How were they used?
Its purpose, I guess, is to allow novice programmers to dynamically change data without using “complicated stuff” like composite types (arrays and objects).
I never use them.