On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:22, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I was one of the people that argued in favour of GOTO on the Internals list > a few years ago. GOTO has a use, and a very good one at that. It is by far > the most efficient construct when creating parsers or other similar types of > logic flow. The demonized GOTO of the 80s was primarily due to jumping to > arbitrary points in the code, or in the case of basic to arbitrary line > numbers in the code which had little meaning for future readers. Not to mention failure to properly break, as in the OP's code example. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Dedicated Servers, Cloud and Cloud Hybrid Solutions, VPS, Hosting (866-) 725-4321 http://www.parasane.net/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php