print_r(), what does the r stand for?

print_r(), what does the r stand for? any idea?

5 years of coding, and i dont know

 

readable is a good guess.

 

I've always read it as Print_Recursive().

 

Same as joebert, I also read it as "print recursive" because it prints out recursively everything that a variable contains, even object references, so it can get "too informative" in object oriented programming (print_r on front controller = 1MB+ of textual info).

 

print_r() is print readable = print all readable information from this variable.

 

Readable !!!

 

I think r stands for 'result'.

 

i really Liked the question he asked , but i dont know the answer as i m newbie but guess it is Readable

 

print_r - r is referring to the result of the array