context translation is not very good, but the interpretation of the general role of understanding, for development, context is a pair of definitions of the use of variables, constants or configuration, part of the function function in addition to the default values, often need to manually set some definitions to match the current context, To fit the needs of the developer's ideas, these can be adapted to other methods or functions defined by the context, the data source may be variables, or data flow, these functions are to adapt to more other function calls or convenient for developers to use the operation function, so that developers with the current context to set up, For example, stream_context_create the ability to enable file_get_contents to implement more requirements by setting options (examples in PHP) such as fopen operation of multiple streams, the return value can distinguish between different open data streams , It's not exactly true, but it's enough to explain.
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