Re: [PHP-DEV] why does exit() print its argument? From: Derick Rethans (d.rethans <email protected>)
Date: 09/30/01

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

> How about if we overload it a bit. I think anybody who does exit(1) is
> expecting 1 to be set as the return status whereas someone who does
> exit('something bad happened') is expecting the string to be shown a-la
> die(). So let's just check the arg and do the appropriate thing. I would
> be very surprised if that broke anything.

Exactly what I was thinking of, and just wrote...

Derick 

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