Dmitry Stogov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Because of some confused people I reverted "break label" patch and post it
> for discussion once again together with GOTO patch.
>
> Please reviw and vote.
>
> 1) goto and break label
> 2) goto only (like C)
> 3) break label only (like Java)
> 4) nothing
For what it is worth:
1) +0.5
2) +1
3) +0
4) -1
I don't see any real benefit to break label as the deepest I have ever
seen is 3 levels of break. I have run up against too many situations
where the only way to lex something effectively in PHP is with pcre.
The ability to port a tool like re2c would make it far easier to do
things efficiently without having to write a new PHP extension. I doubt
any users will suddenly start peppering goto all over their source, I
just can't see that happening when there are so many other great loop
constructs available. Discouraging its use is easy - just make sure the
manual makes it really unattractive and has examples of better ways to
implement goto using for/foreach/while.
Greg