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Subject: making var_dump and var_export even better
From: karoly@negyesi.net ("Karoly Negyesi")

Hi,

If var_dump would dump the type info into PHP comments then var_dump
would be also valid PHP code. That'd be very cool. I guess this would
be rather easy to code as we already have var_export.

Also, about circular references. Isn't it possible to reuse the
circular recognition from print_r and actually write out a reference
to the offending piece?

Regards,

Karoly Negyesi