Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:11667 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 28995 invoked by uid 1010); 30 Jul 2004 13:55:21 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 28970 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2004 13:55:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailgate.mysql.com) (213.136.52.47) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 30 Jul 2004 13:55:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailgate.mysql.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6UDtK5r017462; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:55:20 +0200 Received: from mail.mysql.com ([10.222.1.99]) by localhost (mailgate.mysql.com [10.222.1.98]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with LMTP id 00436-09; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:55:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.156] (mailsend.mysql.com [10.100.1.123]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.mysql.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6UDtGBk007498; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:55:16 +0200 Message-ID: <410BA4E3.20600@php.net> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 15:55:47 +0200 Reply-To: hartmut@php-groupies.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040714 X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lester Caine CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <20040729021337.73894.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <1091136355.490.4.camel@localhost> <1091139076.29517.12.camel@blobule.suds> <410991E1.6070000@hristov.com> <1091140927.29516.18.camel@blobule.suds> <41099925.4020700@hristov.com> <20040729225322.94418.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <41099C4A.4080206@hristov.com> <75910961.20040729190842@ionzoft.com> <41099EB2.9090403@hristov.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20040729232459.02f31418@127.0.0.1> <410A0EDE.8050902@emini.dk> <20040730100057.63379.qmail@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20040730100057.63379.qmail@pb1.pair.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mailgate.mysql.com Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GOTO operator From: hartmut@php.net (Hartmut Holzgraefe) Lester Caine wrote: > Personally I see NO advantage to GOTO in a structured language, and even > if it is added I've learnt enough in 30 years to avoid it. Surely CASE > is much safer and naturally 'contained'? Two words: "State machine" -- Hartmut Holzgraefe