Re: GOTO operator

Hello Edin, Friday, July 30, 2004, 8:03:36 PM, you wrote: > 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. Use error handling functions. -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net