note 91421 deleted from control-structures.goto by danbrown

From: Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:01:42 +0000
Subject: note 91421 deleted from control-structures.goto by danbrown
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Note Submitter: Allen Grenander ---- The goto statement is indeed very powerful. Especially when used with the switch statement which is explicitly not allowed in php. The 2nd powerful use of the goto statement is in creating nearly unreadable code and completely unmaintainable applications. I'm not suggesting that this control structure needs to be removed from the language. But new coders do need to be warned against the superfluous use of this construct. In most cases, heavy use of the goto statement means that the problem being solved has not been properly understood or analyzed.

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