Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: exit() / die() From: Sander Steffann (sander <email protected>)
Date: 09/29/01

> I'm glad I read the list. Doing (a) will break several scripts that my
site
> depends on.

Ok, I was mistaken in thinking it wouldn't break (a lot of) existing code.

> "Zeev Suraski" <zeev <email protected>> wrote in message
> news:5.1.0.14.2.20010929020430.051aa2a8 <email protected>
> > Guys,
> >
> > Changing these is quite out of the question - they've been a core part
of
> > the language since 1997 (at least), and have lots of lines of code that
> > rely on them. Moreover, there's no clear-cut reason to change it,
> > especially considering it only makes sense when used in command-line
mode,
> > whereas the current behavior is useful in all SAPIs (in order to
introduce
> > such a compatibility-breaking change, we need a *good* reason).

You are right. I have been doing some command-line work lately, and I was
surprised that exit() didn't do what I expected. But PHP is still (mostly) a
web-server language, and there it would make no sense indeed.

Changing my vote to -1 on changing and +1 on introducing a new function :)
Sander. 

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