Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:11644 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 80093 invoked by uid 1010); 29 Jul 2004 23:14:06 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 80068 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2004 23:14:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.kromann.info) (64.186.239.125) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 29 Jul 2004 23:14:05 -0000 Received: from Swwwing2000 (unknown [64.186.239.115]) by mail.kromann.info (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BD862AE58 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:14:57 -0700 (PDT) To: X-Mailer: Swwwing 2000 Message-ID: <10911425676360000@9866357972520000.9866341568840000> MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: "Frank M. Kromann" Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:09:27 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GOTO operator From: frank@kromann.info ("Frank M. Kromann") [snip] > The average Joe may not need goto in some case but he will find that it simplifies > his job (but making code clumsy, something what he does not realize). > It is not because I don't like the power of goto, I would like not to be given in the > hands of the newbie. > > andrey > PHP has many advanced features that would make a newbie (or any other level of skills) produce bad code, but yet we have these functions and features in the language. Most code can be written without GOTO, and I belive that it will, but some cases simply gets more messy by not having the option of using GOTO's. Implementing the feature would allow programmers at any level to use it or leave it. I like options! - Frank