Goto is somewhat equivalent to 'case' combined with using 'continue' in loops. More precisely, this 2 language constructions are the 'goto' implementation with a different name so that Dijkstra does not get back from the grave to punish us =D It is true that goto is a little 'off-paradigm' in OOP and truly structured languages, however, the point is this: sometimes continue and case produce code that is not so clear and small at the same time as a little well used goto. BUT goto allows non experienced or not well educated programmers to begin writing horrible and totally unstructured code, and go further developing bad programming habits... IMHO, would php be a more restrictive language (strongly typed, or something alike) I would be totally and unconditionally on for a goto addon. However, i see the bad habits and bad code promotion as something that should be very carefully noted before deciding whether to apply it or not. I hope i have added some good points to help make the consideration deeper and better =)
Regards Leo On Wednesday 28 July 2004 23:12, 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 -- Leonardo Pedretti Axon Sistemas Líder de Equipo Proyecto Basalto -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
