Hi internals, Voting has started today on https://wiki.php.net/rfc/readable_var_representation and closes on 2021-02-19.
This RFC proposes introducing a new function `var_representation` with the following differences from var_export: 1. `var_representation()` unconditionally returns a string 2. Use `null` instead of `NULL` - the former is recommended by more coding guidelines (https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-2/). 3. Change the way indentation is done for arrays/objects. See ext/standard/tests/general_functions/short_var_export1.phpt (e.g. always add 2 spaces, never 3 in objects, and put the array start on the same line as the key) 4. Render lists as `"[\n 'item1',\n]"` rather than `"array(\n 0 => 'item1',\n)"` Always render empty lists on a single line, render multiline by default when there are 1 or more elements 5. Prepend `\` to class names so that generated code snippets can be used in namespaces without any issues. 6. Support `VAR_REPRESENTATION_SINGLE_LINE` in $flags. This will use a single-line representation for arrays/objects. 7. Escape control characters("\x00"-"\x1f" and "\x7f"(backspace)) inside of double quoted strings instead of single quoted strings with unescaped control characters mixed with ` . "\0" . `. Thanks, -Tyson -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
