Re: Re: GOTO command. Doest it exist?
| From: | Scott Hurring | Date: | Tue, 11 Jun 2002 20:39:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: GOTO command. Doest it exist? | ||
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Well, IMO, the only languages that really need goto's are low-level
ones like assembly and C.
goto's are more trouble than they're worth when you get into
structured or OO programming.
--
Scott Hurring
Systems Programmer
EAC Corporation
scott (*) eac.com
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"Carlos U. Cirello Filho" <carloscirello@ieg.com.br> wrote in message
news:20020611203326.49823.qmail@pb1.pair.com...
> OK,
>
> Anyway goto's are bad and wrong things... And one shouldn't use it. I am
> wrong in trying to solve such problem using it. But I was really amazed that
> PHP did not have goto....
>
> Kind Regards,
>
>
> Carlos Cirello
>
>
> "Jay Blanchard" <jay.blanchard@niicommunications.com> wrote in message
> news:000e01c21183$ab49e590$8102a8c0@niigziuo4ohhdt...
> > [snip]
> > Subject: Re: [PHP] GOTO command. Doest it exist?
> > [/snip]
> >
> > No, and you don't need it. The reason? Ask yourself, "what is the use of a
> > GOTO?". Usually GOTO indicates a function of some sort, which you could
> > easily replicate with a function() or switch() if you need to send your
> > application in a different direction depending upon a set of
> circumstances.
> >
> > HTH!
> >
> > Jay
> >
> >
>
>