Re: GOTO operator
| From: | Ilia Alshanetsky | Date: | Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:29:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: GOTO operator | ||
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On July 30, 2004 01:11 pm, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> Secondly, I just don't understand what the sudden necessity for the goto
> construct is when over the years we have barely ever had a PHP developer
> asking for it.
That can be said for virtually any new functionality that was added to PHP.
Looking at the feature request lists, I only see one person asking for
exceptions to be added to PHP, and yet they were added. As PHP's userbase and
it's possible applications grow so do demands of the developers from the
language. Just because something was not needed for X years, it does not mean
there is no need for it now. The comments expressed by a large number of
responders to this thread indicate that "goto" are not a fancy of a slim
minority.
Ilia