[wp-hackers] Returning instead of echoing

[Brian Meidell]

I was just about to bring it up.

I am so glad this discussion is reopened. 
I still stand by the get_* non-get variant, as it's the most easily maintainable and usable way to do it. It has no impact on existing functions (if we can find a naming convention that doesn't clash with existing functions), and it has no performance hit.

As for newbies being confused by echo, either we could use print (which is a bit more intuitive) or we could include the easytags plugin idea directly in the basic install, thus allowing newbies to be free of PHP code.

The easytags idea was here:
http://meidell.dk/archives/category/wordpress/easytags-plugin/
Take a look at the code - it's extremely simple, and I have a lot of ideas to extend it. But it completely relies on returning functions, which is why I dropped development on it. At least until returning functions was the norm in wp.

/Brian

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: David House <dave at xmouse.ithium.net>
Reply-To: hackers at wordpress.org
Date:  Tue,  9 Nov 2004 16:36:40 +0000

>Quoting Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu>:
>
>> My feeling is that it won't make a notable difference, but we should
>> profile any changes to make sure.  Also, we need to set some API policy
>> regarding wp_, the_, get_, etc.  Michel had some thoughts on this, I
>> believe.  Perhaps Matt will chime in once he has furniture to sit on.
>
>Brian Meidell did an experiment:
>
>http://wordpress.org/pipermail/hackers_wordpress.org/2004-July/000937.html
>
>In other words, negligible difference is made.
>
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