Req #74362 [Wfx]: Make echo and print equivalent

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74362&edit=1 ID: 74362 Updated by: bwoebi@php.net Reported by: olafvdspek at gmail dot com Summary: Make echo and print equivalent Status: Wont fix Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Scripting Engine problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Small example: foo(print 1, 2); ^ is 2 a second argument to print or to foo? That's ambiguous, hence we do not allow that. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-04-02 13:22:05] olafvdspek at gmail dot com > That's not the only difference, OK, so the documentation is wrong too? @dm: sure, but that doesn't mean print couldn't support multiple arguments does it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-04-02 13:03:11] dm@php.net print has a return value along with outputting and can be used as e.g. return print json_encode(...); while echo can not. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-04-02 12:45:54] kelunik@php.net That's not the only difference, the return types also vary. "echo" is "void" while "print" returns "int". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-04-02 12:42:39] olafvdspek at gmail dot com Description: ------------ Could print be made equivalent to echo such that it accepts multiple arguments? > The only difference to print is that echo accepts an argument list. > The only difference to echo is that print only accepts a single argument. http://php.net/echo http://php.net/print Test script: --------------- <?php echo('A', 2, 'C'); print('A', 2, 'C'); Actual result: -------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74362&edit=1