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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GOTO operator
From: php@hristov.com (Andrey Hristov)

Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> Andrey,
> 
> Here are some more programming languages you may wish to discredit for their 
> goto support.
This made me smile :)
> Fortran,
this : http://cvs.php.net/co.php/pecl/stats/dcdflib.c?r=1.1
nice code has been written firstly in Fortran and then converted to C. When I want
to train my braincells I try to understand the code flow :)
> C#,
> Cobol,
> Ada
I was trying to remember whether Ada has goto. I think Pascal also has. No idea why
the military guys needed goto in Ada :)

Ilia, my idea is that goto brings problems in most cases and I kind of saving my donkey
(and maybe the donkeys of other people) of some royal pain when we are pushed to support
badly written _legacy_ code.

cheers,
andrey