Re: GOTO operator

On July 30, 2004 02:25 pm, you wrote: > At 21:19 30/07/2004, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > >It seemed to me like people have raised numerous valid argument and have > > even gone as far as to back them up with examples. If you need more of > > those, then surely the supporters of goto can provide them. But let's > > make the decision based on technical merits rather then "what someone may > > or may not do with this". > > Well, in the past we've based our decisions also on things such as the 'WTF > Factor' and if/how people are likely to abuse the discussed > feature. register_globals, which IIRC you supported disabling (but I could > be wrong), is a perfect example of such a case. I did support it, but IIRC a security implications of having it enabled were also a major concern and perhaps the deciding factor in having this option disabled. > Quoting what you just > said, I think this worked quite well for PHP, don't you agree? :) I agree ;-) Ilia