Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48669&edit=1
ID: 48669
Comment by: riaanvermaak at gmail dot com
Reported by: iwannalive at hotmail dot com
Summary: PHP now includes GOTO
Status: Bogus
Type: Bug
Package: Reproducible crash
Operating System: All
PHP Version: 5.3.0RC4
Block user comment: N
New Comment:
I don't see anything wrong with using "goto" the php manual says:
"...The target label must be within the same file and context..."
Surely if a programmer manages to mess up the use of this, he/she must
be a complete nit·wit...
I can't recommend anyone to mess up their code with a million goto's
but, it may be useful.
if you don't want to take on the task of determining how, when and when
not, to make use of certain aspects of a language, it really is your own
loss...
You are then, beyond help.
Previous Comments:
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[2010-10-19 07:18:50] phpbugs at ordisante dot com
Why would you need GOTO for bug handling? We have a wonderful Exception
system.
It can do everything you want.
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[2010-10-08 20:30:31] thehazard at gmail dot com
Seriously, goto is awesome and in some cases,
very useful and can make the code a lot more clean.
Are bad/unexperienced programmers use 'goto' to create some crazy ugly
mess?
I have no doubt about it, but that doesn't mean that the feature
itself is the problem. The problem is the programmer's inexperience,
and it is not the place of the language to teach the programmer
better programming practices.
Goto is great, for example, for cleanups. You put some cleanup
code in the end of a function and in its body you check for
several test cases where things could go wrong. If something goes
wrong, you signal the error and jump directly to the cleanup
with 'goto', instead of having to create a big mess of if's to
test if an error has happened or not on each step, to then decide
whether your function should continue executing or not.
It is a primitive in pretty much any architecture
(cmp, jmp/jz, etc) and used extensively in the linux kernel,
for example.
Anyone who complains about goto being 'dangerous' is either
a blind fad follower or just believes that the language should
master the programmer (and not the other way around).
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[2010-07-14 01:02:40] risto78 at gmail dot com
sounds like a valid bug to me ;)
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[2010-05-07 14:41:11] anil at ozselgin dot com
It makes php more buggy and suitable only for small programs. Is there
anybody out there like readable code.
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[2009-08-04 18:47:50] and...@php.net
goto hell;
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