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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GOTO operator
From: php@hristov.com (Andrey Hristov)

Robert Cummings wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 17:25, Timm Friebe wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 04:12, 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.
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>In the five or six year's I've been programming PHP, I haven't ever felt
>>the need to have "goto". Neither have I seen a newsgroup posting related
>>to it in the two years or so I followed the German PHP newsgroup,
>>de.comp.lang.php.
>>
>>I don't think goto is really needed. People using other languages manage
>>to do without it, too.
> 
> 
> C has it
Well, yes, C is very close the ASM, and ASM needs jmp-s.
> C++ has it
Yes, C++ was designed to be as close to C as possible. I think
I read this in Straustrup's book. Thus C++ had to have goto.
> VB has it
Yes, since it has it roots in Basic. Remember
10 Print "Hello"
20 Goto 10
> Lisp has "GO" which is pretty much the same
No experience with Lisp :)
> Perl
A language created by a hacker for hackers. I think Perl is quite
famous for the unmaintable code.

> 
> I'm sure many other too.
> 
> Just because people "manage" to do without it in some languages, doesn't
> mean it isn't a useful feature.
> Cheers,
> Rob.

cheers,
andrey