Re: print with newline

On Sa, 2019-03-02 at 11:59 -0800, Steven Penny wrote: > 1. Modify one or more of "print", "print_r", "var_export" such > that > they produce >    a newline by default This is a break of backwards compatibility in a bad way. This breaks people doing specific output. > 2. Modify one or more of "print", "print_r", "var_export" such > that > they have an >    argument similar to Python "end" that controls what follows the > input, if >    anything: > >    https://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#print PHP's echo has the option already:   echo $foo, PHP_EOL; not much difference i effort to writing    print $foo, true; except that the code is explicit. > 3. Add a new method, perhaps "echoln", "println", "say" or > similar, > that outputs >    a newline by default function println($a) {     echo $a, PHP_EOL; } Can easily be done in library. > 4. introduce a new variable, perhaps "$OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR", > "$ORS", "$\" or >    similar, that controls output record separator Such magic is hard to debug and easily leads to bugs in user code. While sometimes having a shortcut at hand is nice, next request will be to automatically add a "<br>" as we often produce HTML and thn the ex request and next and this becomes messy and making everything harder for very little benefit. johannes