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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: built-in web server in CLI.
From: dave@dmi.me.uk (Dave Ingram)

On 04/19/11 15:44, Michael Morris wrote:
> watch ($var) -> $var is sent to the console on the line this statement is
> made with the statment "now watching 'var'.. init value "x", and then each
> time it changes it is updated in the console.
Just my 0.02 as a user, but it strikes me that watch() could be a handy
addition that would be difficult and/or extremely painful to do in userland.


Dave