Re: print with newline

On Sat, 02 Mar 2019 22:15:49, johannes schlueters wrote:

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.

my request was not "how to print a newline with PHP". the request is for PHP to implement a builtin method that prints a newline *by default*. currently no method exists that i know of.

function println($a) { echo $a, PHP_EOL; } Can easily be done in library.

again not a builtin.

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.

you post this without recognizing that Perl and Ruby already have this for many years.

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.

at least 5 other popular programming languages implement this already, and have for many years. its even part of the POSIX standard: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/puts.html so at a minimum it should be implemented as part of PHP POSIX: http://php.net/ref.posix