On 6/6/05, Chris Drozdowski <c.d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I perused the discussion about the inclusion of "goto" into the PHP > language on the php.internals list. Yeah, I've been following it as well.. seems there would be bigger fish to fry, I dunno. I benched Ruby and PHP doing some simple random number addition recently and PHP is pretty slow in comparison. If the simple stuff is slow I imagine the complex stuff is pretty slow as well. Not bashing PHP at all, but I wouldn't call it 'fast' either. I doubt many people would use goto anyway. I have nothing against it technically or personally, but over the years it's been burned into my brain that using it is _bad_. *shrug* I suspect I might use it if it were there. I do think I'd make heavy use of ifsetor(), I would gladly use that instead of $i = isset( $_GET[ 'i' ] ) ? $_GET[ 'i' ] : 0; > From a PHP end-user's perspective, I would suggest that rather than > focusing on adding new language constructs such as goto, that the > development team put 100% focus on making what it already has as fast > and stable as possible (and maybe iron out the Unicode issue) so that > the corporate and hosting community will more readily accept it. I hear ya on that. I think it might be similar to the Apache 2 thing. We already got PHP4 which works pretty well so why risk it. PHP5 runs great for me, but I see their point of view. > I've been begging my hosting company to upgrade to 5.0.x for months but > they say "we're going to wait until next year when it has stabilized." The guys at http://www.ocssolutions.com gave me PHP 5.04, MySQL 4.1, and Ruby on Rails this weekend. They will build a box to your spec, even for a shared account. I'm not affiliated with them in any way, found them using Google. > That's really frustrating because I find 5.x's current features so > compelling and useful. I find a great many of the new 5.0 features get emulated using PHP4 code in the user comments in the manual. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
