#29287 [Opn]: Request: Line labels and goto

ID: 29287 Updated by: pollita@php.net Reported By: abodeman at yahoo dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Irrelevant PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: The original post got a "no" because it's long been an unspoken position that GOTO has no place in PHP. As chance would have it, I submitted a goto implementation to the php.internals list last on the 28th (hadn't seen your feature request at the time interrestingly enough) which spawned somewhere over 150 posts on the mailing list plus at least a couple blog entries on the subject. The implementation is still under development, and the decision to implmenent it is.... under discussion. Feel free to chime in on internals@lists.php.net You can read up on the conversation in the archives at http://news.php.net/php.internals/ Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-08-02 21:56:04] jdemaris at cse dot unl dot edu What is still likely to be added? Labels? Gotos? Both? Many developers, myself included, would welcome both features. I'm curious why you were so quick to spout an unqualified "no" to the original post. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-08-02 11:42:23] derick@php.net It's still likely to be added ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-07-26 19:44:54] jhelzer at cse dot unl dot edu Whether this is the relevant place or not, to treat goto and labels as two heads of the same body (as you seem to imply) is silly. I can understand a reluctance to implement goto, but adding labels for the break statement make a tremendous amount of sense. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-07-21 00:00:59] jhelzer at cse dot unl dot edu I am curious, why not? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-07-20 22:31:59] derick@php.net We won't implement goto and or labels. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/29287 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=29287&edit=1