Zeev, I understand argument 1, and that's why I like the idea of overloading integer output. I still wonder if there is a web page out there that calls exit(integer)
Argument 2 is good, because PHP is focused toward the web, which I understand that it should be. However, I believe the language syntax and style can make a good general purpose scripting language as well. Things like this can keep PHP from increasing beyond the 10% cmd line usage. If adding an additional function is all that you will settle for, then I would suggest we use sys_exit() or system_exit() that way we resemble some of the languages out there. (Java - System.exit(), Python - Sys.exit()) -Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zeev Suraski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Lars Torben Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Vlad Krupin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jani Taskinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP Developers Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 2:26 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Question: Should exit() print out the integer exit-status? > 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] > -- 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]
