RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > MR>>expose the ugliness of what would _appear_ to be a handy feature. I > MR>>don't pack any weight on this list so if someone with a -1 on this > MR>>feature would like to kick it up to -2 I'd appreciate it. > > I'm not sure why goto should be needed after many years of successful life > without it. I think parametrized break/continue takes care of all cases > when I would need goto in C, so I think goto is not needed. In any case, > goto in/out of the control block in an invitation to hell, since it would > mess up a lot of assumptions and can lead to crashes/leaks. So I > personally don't particularly like this idea. We're only talking about a goto that: - can only jump to a static label - can only jump inside the current scope With a parameterized break/continue you still can't just to the "end" of your function to do clean ups (unless you wrap it in a control block which is ugly and already possible anyway). Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org