It can't be doable because it makes writing an optimizer impossible.

-sterling

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 11:54:28 -0700, Sara Golemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > If you really, really, really wanted to do such a thing, you could still
> do:
> > >
> > >   eval("goto foo$bar;");
> > >
> > > to get the same effect, right?
> >
> > Hmm, depends on how it's implemented. It will most likely not work I
> > guess.
> >
> Nope... eval()'d code is in a separate op_array from the code it's eval()'d
> from.  While it has the same variable scope it does not have the same label
> pool.  Building in that kind of support is theoretically doable (and you'd
> get support for cross-file gotos in the process), but it complicates the
> execution flow somethin' fierce.
> 
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