My only consideration is that most people use var_dump in a web environment--hence it seems counterintuitive to have to enclose the function in additional HTML tags.
Cheers! On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 11:09, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Marco Tabini wrote: > > > Not sure if this interest anyone, but the attached patch adds a function > > called var_dump_html() that performs the same functionality as > > var_dump(), except that it outputs HTML instead of plain text. > > var_dump() is a bit impractical to use in a web environment, IMO. > > We already have three functions for dumping debug info (var_dump, > var_export and print_r). The latter two can be used like: > > echo "<pre>". var_export($var, TRUE). "</pre>"; > > I don't think that we should add another here. > > regards, > Derick -- Marco Tabini President Marco Tabini & Associates, Inc. 28 Bombay Avenue Toronto, ON M3H 1B7 Canada Phone: (416) 630-6202 Fax: (416) 630-5057 Web: http://www.tabini.ca -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
