Re: GOTO operator

On Friday, Jul 30, 2004, at 19:52 Europe/Copenhagen, Andi Gutmans wrote:

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.

It's not only for morons but the PHP spirit has always been to keep away of un verbose and unstructured crap like you can find in Perl and friends. I think the "goto" statement fits in that category and you guys are exaggerating the necessity of it both due to it making no sense from a performance aspect (which was one of the arguments) and as the most common use of goto which is breaking out of nested loops also doesn't hold water. So what's left? All of the generation stuff? Those tools can work a bit harder when they are doing machine auto-generation of code and survive. The abuses of the goto statement are far greater than the uses, especially in a language like PHP.

Look through this thread and you'll find an excellent example by Poul G of how goto can make error handling code much more readable. That is precisely where I needed it many many times. Sure you can do that with stinky and ugly goto emulation with do/while, but I'd rather have tool that would allow me to do it in a clean way. Edin