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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:15:31 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GOTO operator
From: frank@kromann.info ("Frank M. Kromann")

We were all newbies at some point and most of us (not including myself)
learned how to handle the language, and so will the newbies of today, even
if GOTO is a part of the language. I don't see a need to make this an
ini-option. It is allready an option - use t or leave it alone.

- Frank

> 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
> 
> 
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