What about just having a function that allows retrieving variables from the parent scope?mixed seek_var( $name [, $levels=1, [ $startLevel=0 ] ] )
How you are going to know where "parent scope" is? It can even be not existing anymore, or can be separated by any number of parameter passing. Remember that the function is defined at compile-time, but invoked at run-time by some other function.
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