Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:36815 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 87275 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2008 18:43:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Apr 2008 18:43:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=jeff@procata.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=jeff@procata.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain procata.com from 207.58.169.145 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: jeff@procata.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 207.58.169.145 vps.procata.net Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [207.58.169.145] ([207.58.169.145:51709] helo=vps.procata.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 8F/13-00597-438C7F74 for ; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:43:01 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-201-158-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([63.201.158.210] helo=[192.168.5.38]) by vps.procata.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JiDLt-0006BC-Jb; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:42:57 -0400 Cc: PHP internals Message-ID: <310D52E5-E1B8-43A7-9A74-70D100FC9F0B@procata.com> To: Derick Rethans In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:42:55 -0700 References: <9b3df6a50804040143k519e4269vb11c9546a289ce1d@mail.gmail.com> <9b3df6a50804040335pc001765r5e0fa641a0edfc99@mail.gmail.com> <1207305666.22702.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <10845a340804040402g7afc22ffu5d31dea3ccf9feb9@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-ACL-Warn: { X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - vps.procata.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.php.net X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - procata.com Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] The "jump" operator From: jeff@procata.com (Jeff Moore) On Apr 4, 2008, at 4:18 AM, Derick Rethans wrote: > http://youngbloods.org/essays/argument_for_goto.html has an IMO good > example. It's java code, but it shows how goto can help you get rid of > nesting hell. Hi Derick, The code in that example looks more like an argument for try ... finally to me than an argument for goto. I have yet to see a good case for goto (not break) that doesn't involve parsing or error handling, and we have exceptions already for error handling flow control. But, we don't have try ... finally (and java doesn't have goto). Best Regards, Jeff