Question about the $Configuration scheme

ShiGon

First of all, I'd like to say that I absolutely LOVE Vanilla 2. I just have a question that I'm burning to ask.

I see the conf.php file containing 3 dimensional arrays and a bunch of code that iterates through these arrays from input like: Gdn::Config('Database.Host', '');

My question is: why is it necessary to make this huge round-the-world code?

For instance, instead of:
$Configuration['Database']['Host'] = 'whatever';

and accessing it like:
$this->_DatabaseInfo['HostName'] = Gdn::Config('Database.Host', '');

Why go to all that trouble when you could do something like:
$Configuration['Database.Host'] = 'whatever';

and access it like:
$this->_DatabaseInfo['HostName'] = $Configuration['Database.Host'];

It just seems overly complicated for no reason. If you could let me know why it has to be that way, I'd love to know!

Linc

That's not actually how you access config values in practice. You'd do this:
$var = C('Garden.Feature.Option');

ShiGon

I've seen it that way too but that was taken directly from class.sqldriver.php:1038 on 2.0.11

But I'm still wondering why so much effort for such a simple task?