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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:08:42 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GOTO operator
From: jason@ionzoft.com (Jason Garber)

Hello,

  I think we should add an INI option:

  php_newbie true|false

  ;)

-- 
Best regards,
 Jason                            mailto:jason@ionzoft.com

Thursday, July 29, 2004, 8:54:34 PM, you wrote:

AH> Sara Golemon wrote:
>>>do {
>>>   .....code...
>>>   if (something) break;
>>>   ...code....
>>>} while (0);
>>>...cleanup code...
>>>
>> 
>> Are you suggesting a hack is better than the real thing?
>> 
>> -Sara
AH> The "hack" is working. The manual says :
AH> " Advanced C users may be familiar with a different usage of the do..while loop,
AH> to allow stopping execution in the middle of code blocks, by encapsulating them
AH> with do..while (0), and using the break  statement. The following code fragment
AH> demonstrates this:" (a similar code follows)
AH> " Don't worry if you don't understand this right away or at all. You can code scripts
AH> and even powerful scripts without using this 'feature'. "
AH> (the manual states that people can code powerful things without goto hack).
AH> Sara, if you need to have the goto, you know how to implement it with do..while.
AH> The average Joe may not need goto in some case but he will find that it simplifies
AH> his job (but making code clumsy, something what he does not realize).
AH> It is not because I don't like the power of goto, I would like not to be given in the
AH> hands of the newbie.

AH> andrey