Re: GOTO operator

On Friday, Jul 30, 2004, at 19:38 Europe/Copenhagen, Andi Gutmans wrote:

At 01:29 PM 7/30/2004 -0400, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:

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.

a) Most of the OOP functionality was requested by a huge amount of PHP developers I've talked to. b) I don't think internals@ is a reflection of the PHP community. Most people here fall into the category of very advanced developers. Doesn't make sense to me to add a stinky construct which no one should really be using, just because there are 50 people out there (most of them on internals@) who would actually use it correctly. Come on. I can't even believe we are arguing about this.

I really can't believe this "PHP is only for morons" attitude that comes from time to time here on internals. Edin