print with newline

with PHP, several methods are available to produce output: echo "hello world\n"; print "hello world\n"; print_r("hello world\n"); var_export("hello world\n"); However all these methods have something in common: they do not produce their own newline. With each method, the user is required to provide a newline with "\n", PHP_EOL or similar. This is bothersome because many other programming languages offer such a method. For example Python: print('hello world') Perl: use feature say; say 'hello world'; Ruby: puts 'hello world' Lua: print 'hello world' Even C: #include <stdio.h> int main() { puts("hello world"); } Out of the above examples, I would say Perl and Ruby are most similar to PHP, in that they also have the "print" method: $ perl -e 'print 2; print 3;' 23 $ ruby -e 'print 2; print 3;' 23 However even in this case, "print" can be made to produce a newline by default: $ perl -e '$\ = "\n"; print 2; print 3;' 2 3 $ ruby -e '$\ = "\n"; print 2; print 3;' 2 3 My request would be one of the following: 1. Modify one or more of "print", "print_r", "var_export" such that they produce a newline by default 2. Modify one or more of "print", "print_r", "var_export" such that they have an argument similar to Python "end" that controls what follows the input, if anything: https://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#print 3. Add a new method, perhaps "echoln", "println", "say" or similar, that outputs a newline by default 4. introduce a new variable, perhaps "$OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR", "$ORS", "$\" or similar, that controls output record separator I understand that some of these methods are old and unlikely to change, but if I do nothing then I have only myself to blame.