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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GOTO operator
From: jsjohnst@altdns.net (Jeremy Johnstone)

Personally I would never use it myself, as I know of better ways around it 
which make more sense to me. But on the other hand if it would help others 
then more power to yah. I think the argument of user's abusing it is bogus, 
as clearly mentioned in this thread. There isn't a WTF factor, as almost 
everyone knows what goto does. So frankly it boils down to this.

a.) If it can be added without affecting anything I do then great, do it.
b.) If your in the camp who is against using it (like me) then don't, but 
don't tell others what they can and can't use.
c.) Newbies will be newbies no matter how much you hand hold them, so just let 
them be newbies and hope they grow out of it sooner than later.

Just my 2c...

-Jeremy

On Wednesday 28 July 2004 09:12 pm, Sara Golemon wrote:
> I wrote up a patch for implementing gotos in php scripts a couple months
> ago as an exercise in working with the Zend engine.  I put it aside
> assuming noone would actually want it, but Wez and Ilia convinced me to
> post it for consideration:
>
> Description:
> http://pecl.org
>
> Patch:
> http://pecl.org/patches/opcode_goto_5.1.0.diff
>
> Talk amongst yourselves...
>
> -Sara