From: dark_panda@hushmail.com
Operating system:
PHP version: 4.1.1
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: println?
I'm in the midst of doing quite a bit of shell/command line
stuff with PHP, and I think it would be kind of useful to
have a println construct, much like in Java or a number of
other languages. println is identical to print, but a
newline/carriage return is appended to the output.
I know I could just write function in PHP or even a
function in an extension to provide the same functionality,
but it might as well be in the language itself, if only
because it may be used often enough to warrant inclusion.
(I know I'd use it all the time.)
I started trying to add it myself (I can see that it would
go in the Zend engine, correct?) but after reminding myself
that I've never used Lex before (nor really looked at the
Zend code) I decided that this would be best left to
someone who actually knows what they're doing when it
comes to the Zend engine.
The only problem I can think of is portability,
specifically the oft-cursed differences between OS newline
sequences. (Is it \n? \r\n? \n\r? Dammit?!) Doesn't seem
like a huge issue, though, does it?
J
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