note 106323 deleted from control-structures.goto by salathe
| From: | salathe@php.net | Date: | Mon, 21 Sep 2020 14:43:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 106323 deleted from control-structures.goto by salathe | ||
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Note Submitter: Ray dot Paseur at Gmail dot com
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You cannot implement a Fortran-style "computed GOTO" in PHP because the label cannot be a
variable. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
<?php // RAY_goto.php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
// DEMONSTRATE THAT THE GOTO LABEL IS CASE-SENSITIVE
goto a;
echo 'Foo';
a: echo 'Bar';
goto A;
echo 'Foo';
A: echo 'Baz';
// CAN THE GOTO LABEL BE A VARIABLE?
$a = 'abc';
goto $a; // NOPE: PARSE ERROR
echo 'Foo';
abc: echo 'Boom';
?>