I always find the string concat operator argument a little hilarious. It's just '.=', one extra character that somehow merits 1000's of word written on how much

I always find the string concat operator argument a little hilarious. It's just '.=', one extra character that somehow merits 1000's of word written on how much it sucks. And being able to do $myvar(), or $$myvar(), or $$myvar[0](), etc is absolutely awesome. Programming in general is dangerous in the hands of an amateur; I'm just happy that I have the freedom to make these mistakes. In regards to the require/ include operation... spl_autoload, and additionally PSR-0, exists for a reason.