I love upvar and uplevel. I once did a web search to see whether there was an equivalent in PHP. I found a thread in at PHP forum, which told a poster that he

I love upvar and uplevel. I once did a web search to see whether there was an equivalent in PHP. I found a thread in at PHP forum, which told a poster that he was a bad person for wanting such a thing. (This was a long time ago, so perhaps I exaggerate. But they did say that PHP was just fine without it.)