Sure, I can appreciate that. But when you're talking about user-space PHP, why not leverage XDebug? Even using it as a "better" printf debugger, it's infinitely

Sure, I can appreciate that. But when you're talking about user-space PHP, why not leverage XDebug? Even using it as a "better" printf debugger, it's infinitely nicer than relying on "var_dump(); die;" -- and coupling it with any IDE or something like Codebug and you get a proper call stack to work with, variable inspection for the entire scope and even a REPL inside your live code at any point in your execution...