Re: PHP 5.1

Quoting Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>:

Personally I am quite ambivalent about adding goto. What I am not ambivalent about is adding anything that will be a nightmare to support. If the goto patch can be done in such a way that there is absolutely no way that it will cause weird stack corruptions or other scope issues when people use it incorrectly then I don't mind. People will use it incorrectly just like they use all sorts of other features incorrectly, but if it causes PHP to blow up or lose track of its scope, then I say we leave it out. Some examples: while(a) { goto c; while(b) {

    c:
    break 1;

} } Will that break out of the outer loop? Or slightly simpler: c: while(a) { if(b) goto c; break 1; } Am I 1 or 2 levels deep in that while loop once I enter it again after the goto? -Rasmus So, it should not be possible

- to jump to a label which is declared before the actual goto statement. - to jump in a block which is on a level deeper than the current one (here should be handled that that jumping into another block on the same level should be forbidden) Andrey