Re: GOTO and/or BREAK LABEL

Dmitry Stogov wrote: > Hi, > > Because of some confused people I reverted "break label" patch and post it > for discussion once again together with GOTO patch. > > Please reviw and vote. > > 1) goto and break label > 2) goto only (like C) > 3) break label only (like Java) > 4) nothing For what it is worth: 1) +0.5 2) +1 3) +0 4) -1 I don't see any real benefit to break label as the deepest I have ever seen is 3 levels of break. I have run up against too many situations where the only way to lex something effectively in PHP is with pcre. The ability to port a tool like re2c would make it far easier to do things efficiently without having to write a new PHP extension. I doubt any users will suddenly start peppering goto all over their source, I just can't see that happening when there are so many other great loop constructs available. Discouraging its use is easy - just make sure the manual makes it really unattractive and has examples of better ways to implement goto using for/foreach/while. Greg