Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Var_export tabbing

2011-01-24 Thread Johannes Schlüter
Hi, On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 13:26 -0500, Michael Morris wrote: > Anyway, var_export takes 2 arguments - the expression to be converted and > whether to return or echo it. I'd like to add a third, whether to use > spaces (default) or tabs for indentation While I'm not sure that's really needed: Why

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Var_export tabbing

2011-01-24 Thread Michael Morris
That is the primary purpose. For most datasets str_replace(' ', "\t", var_export($obj, true)) gets what I want. But this is for exploration of process. I don't expect it to be committed to the language on a permanent basis. To be honest, it would be better as a php.ini setting - export_indentati

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Var_export tabbing

2011-01-24 Thread Hannes Landeholm
If you're looking into doing something that are both useful and good for learning C, my suggestion is to hack PHP in some way that makes something possible (in PHP) that you couldn't simply accomplish by writing a simple wrapper function or workaround. Making var_export use tabs instead of spaces i

[PHP-DEV] [RFC] Var_export tabbing

2011-01-24 Thread Michael Morris
I've been trying to think of something that would be a good project to cut my teeth on for a first C project in forever and I'd rather work on something that might be useful. While cleaning tabbing on a var_export for a test class I think I have an idea. What I'm looking for is two things. One, i