Re: exit() summary

I get the impression that many questions raise need a voting so we see how not only three, four developers respond to it but how the masses, who're THE userbase, actually use it. Do you guys think its silly to have voting or do you think it can be useful? Personally, I've seen several cases in the past where a voting system would have solved at least the question, what MORE people think about it. - Markus On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 06:04:35PM +0100, Derick Rethans wrote : > Hello, > > yeah, another endless mail shout at, well, listen first :) > > As you all know, a lot of ppl think that Backward Compability is The Most > Presious Thing. Other ppl think that more and better functions are more > important. This sometimes requires _breaking_ backward compability (uh > oh, i mentioned it), as was cheerfull mentioned by Mr Lemos. Although he > has a good point, we still decided (one year ago) that the dirname was > broken. <soft voice>The same is true for exit().</soft voice><loud > voice>It's simply broken</loud voice> from a programmers perspective. Look > at C/Pascal/shells/Java and every other programming language available on > Earth, but no, because some programmer that wrote the language semantics, > thought, hey, let's exit() print out the status too, cause it looks nice. > BAD. > > Ok, that was the problem, now the solution: > > 1. We fix exit > 2. We add an extra argument to exit, which silences the output > 3. We make exit understand @, like @exit(); > 4. We add a new function > > Before hell breaks loose again, I don't want to hear comments on this, > only reply's with those numbers in the subject. You can direct all mail > to exit@vl-srm.net. > > Discussions can go on here of course :) > > regards, > Derick > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.