On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Marco Behnke <marco@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 06.02.12 17:23, schrieb Alain Williams: > > However: a few GOTOs can make things clearer. Think of a function that > > can fail in several different places (eg data validation, ...). But it > > is reading a file which needs to be closed before the function > > returns. I have seen code where some $IsError variable is tested in > > many places to see if things should be done. That is just as bad as > > lots of GOTO -- often when having to write something like that I will > > have a GOTO (in > > Good code uses Exceptions and try catch for that kind of scenarios. > Marco, Do you know of any research (Human Factors, Bug Analysis, etc.) that supports this? I'm certainly not saying that your assertion is incorrect. However, I'm starting to compile relevant research related to this topic. Thanks, Adam -- Nephtali: A simple, flexible, fast, and security-focused PHP framework http://nephtaliproject.com
