Why is it that I can't reference a global variable directly in PHP?
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I'm curious to know why the following code behaves differently?
The following does not work:
$_variable &= global $_global;
echo $_variable;
The following works:
global $global;
$_variable &= $_global;
echo $_variable;
?
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