Re: PHP 5.1
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Tue, 07 Jun 2005 11:39:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP 5.1 | ||
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EK>>number on the ratio of abuse vs. use of this new feature.
So far, I personally saw one legitimate use brought up - exiting control
blocks, which can be handled with another proposal, labeled breaks.
Another use brought up - claim that parsers can't work without it - don't
seem to me a valid argument for goto, I'm perfectly sure one can write
parsers without any gotos, as many languages (e.g. Java) don't have gotos
and have parsers for all kinds of data. That's not to mean PHP should
always mimick Java, but this is to prove that agument about necessity of
goto for parser writing is false. So, we are back to only one legitimate
use. You are welcome to bring forward more.
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