[15:17:58] <xover>	 legoktm: Possibly dumb question, but… Isn't https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/643b1b40a8f854695ea4e91281bb78c30d3ccd09%5E%21/includes/GlobalFunctions.php broken?
[15:19:00] <xover>	 $repl is always null there so the two other conditions are never evaluated. No?
[15:19:38] <legoktm>	 repl is null the first time the function is called
[15:21:18] <xover>	 Oh, ok, it's scoping and lifetime that's confusing me. Thanks.
[15:33:45] <Lucas_WMDE>	 good old C static