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Date: 28 Jul 2004 22:21:48 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GOTO operator
From: robert@interjinn.com (Robert Cummings)

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 22:12, Sara Golemon wrote:
> I wrote up a patch for implementing gotos in php scripts a couple months ago
> as an exercise in working with the Zend engine.  I put it aside assuming
> noone would actually want it, but Wez and Ilia convinced me to post it for
> consideration:
> 
> Description:
> http://pecl.org
> 
> Patch:
> http://pecl.org/patches/opcode_goto_5.1.0.diff
> 
> Talk amongst yourselves...

Oh that's awesome... please say yes... please please please :) I've
always thought goto was a bit of a missing element in PHP since it's the
method of choice IMHO for fast and concise parsing.

Cheers,
Rob.
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