[snip] Absolutely nobody in this day and age advocated "goto <lineNumber>". The only use to have useful advantage is "goto <labelName>" and of course that is where the <labelName> exists within the current execution scope. A function call is not an acceptable replacement since you incure the overhead of setting up the function and the stack. Contrast the difference in speed between "is_null( $foo )" and "$foo === null". [/snip] The speed difference is negligible though, in this day and age, dependent upon how much hair-splitting you would care to do. You're still setting aside a block of code which will have to be parsed and you incur the same setup if the goto section is the same code as the function. The overhead is introduced in the calling of the function. But we're splitting hairs here :) [snip] PHP has never purported to be an OOP only language. It advocates both procedural and OOP programming methodologies. Just ask Richard Lynch :) [/snip] I never said that PHP was OOP only, I was just pointing out how, historically, the goto was depricated. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
