Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74362&edit=1
ID: 74362
Updated by: [email protected]
Reported by: olafvdspek at gmail dot com
Summary: Make echo and print equivalent
Status: Wont fix
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Small example:
foo(print 1, 2);
^ is 2 a second argument to print or to foo?
That's ambiguous, hence we do not allow that.
Previous Comments:
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[2017-04-02 13:22:05] olafvdspek at gmail dot com
> That's not the only difference,
OK, so the documentation is wrong too?
@dm: sure, but that doesn't mean print couldn't support multiple arguments does it?
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[2017-04-02 13:03:11] [email protected]
`print` has a return value along with outputting and can be used as e.g. `return print json_encode(...);` while `echo` can not.
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[2017-04-02 12:45:54] [email protected]
That's not the only difference, the return types also vary. "echo" is "void" while "print" returns "int".
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[2017-04-02 12:42:39] olafvdspek at gmail dot com
Description:
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Could print be made equivalent to echo such that it accepts multiple arguments?
> The only difference to print is that echo accepts an argument list.
> The only difference to echo is that print only accepts a single argument.
http://php.net/echo
http://php.net/print
Test script:
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<?php
echo('A', 2, 'C');
print('A', 2, 'C');
Actual result:
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