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

Frank M. Kromann wrote:
> [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

Ok, I surrender. Go for it :)
I will pray and let God save me from ever maintaining spaghetti goto code :)

andrey

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