Two reasons: (1) It never behaved that way, and we're not in the language design phase, but almost 4.5 years after it got started. (2) The Web being PHP's primary environment where system exit codes have no meaning at all, makes this argument useless in well over 90% (est) of the cases
If (1) wasn't true, we could consider it, and frankly, chances are it would have ended up behaving like its C counterpart. However, because there's no overwhelming reason to change it other than a few people not liking a longer name for their relatively-rare usage, breaking compatibility makes no sense. Zeev At 17:57 19/12/2001, Jason Greene wrote: >Zeev, > >Why don't we follow C/C++/Java/Perl/Python, and almost every other >language on this one, and make exit behave like exit should. > >-Jason > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Zeev Suraski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Lars Torben Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Vlad Krupin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jani Taskinen" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP Developers Mailing List" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 6:59 AM >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Question: Should exit() print out the integer >exit-status? > > > > exit_with_status(), silent_exit(), quiet_exit(), etc. etc. Something > > should fit :) > > > > > > At 14:49 19/12/2001, Lars Torben Wilson wrote: > > >Zeev Suraski writes: > > > > At 14:04 19/12/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >Two ways to fix it then, either update the manual, or fix exit(). > I go for > > > > >the last one then. Ppl who relied on the undocumented feature > then, did > > > > >simply the wrong thing. > > > > > > > > Only the documentation was wrong to begin with! A documentation bug > > > should > > > > not become a feature, especially when it never worked that way, so > anybody > > > > who actually used this function saw that it was behaving differently. > > > > > > > > Zeev > > > > > >Well, from another point of view, both were wrong. :) The manual > > >documented behaviour which didn't exist, so it was wrong. In another > > >sense, the code behaved in a fashion which had a very high WTF factor, > > >so it couild be called 'wrong' too. > > > > > >An easy way to set and check the exit status of a PHP script would > > >make a lot of life a hell of a lot easier. > > > > > > > > >-- > > > Torben Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com > > > http://www.hybrid17.com > > > http://www.inflatableeye.com > > > +1.604.709.0506 > > > > > > -- > > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
