RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1

> > JC>>Since when did anyone care that we were giving users > enough rope to > JC>>hang themselves with? > > There's rope and rope. Giving rope is one thing, giving a > pack of explosives is another. > > JC>>I don't think we should worry ourselves with people who > don't know > JC>>how to code and abuse language constructs like goto -- especially > JC>>when they > > The problem that concerns me is that I suspect most of its > uses would be abuse, actually. The only "legitimate" use for > it I can see it exit from control block without counting > brackets - which would be better solved by labeled > break/continue, I think. Can you give me another legitimate use? PHP Code generation tools? There is a lot of useful code generation tools out there that would be useful when developing in PHP, but quite a few use goto, so porting to PHP output becomes non-trivial. > JC>>have a limited but practical purpose. +1 to a limited goto. Jared