Re: GOTO operator

From: Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:54:28 +0000
Subject: Re: GOTO operator
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> > If you really, really, really wanted to do such a thing, you could still do: > > > > eval("goto foo$bar;"); > > > > to get the same effect, right? > > Hmm, depends on how it's implemented. It will most likely not work I > guess. > Nope... eval()'d code is in a separate op_array from the code it's eval()'d from. While it has the same variable scope it does not have the same label pool. Building in that kind of support is theoretically doable (and you'd get support for cross-file gotos in the process), but it complicates the execution flow somethin' fierce.

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