Re: Re: GOTO and/or BREAK LABEL (conclusion)

From: Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:10:20 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: GOTO and/or BREAK LABEL (conclusion)
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At 19:37 09/03/2006, Pierre wrote:

On 3/9/06, Steph Fox <[email protected]> wrote:

BdB>>Even though I like "jump", people will most likely be searching for
BdB>>"goto" (PHP manual) or "goto PHP" (Google) when they're trying to
BdB>>find out if PHP has such a functionality. So, maybe it's better to
BdB>>just call it "goto".

For such people we might have a page in the manual saying:
goto: see jump


Erm, wouldn't those people who need to refer to the manual be exactly the
same people we wanted to protect from goto in the first place?  :)

jump +1, if it counts

You are back to the main problem, you cannot educate people by keeping
them away from the "dangerous" functions.


Uhm, of course you can.  Avoiding problems is by far the best way of solving them.  But it has nothing to do with our topic.

Zeev

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