Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2 / zend_compile.c zend_compile.hzend_globals.h zend_language_parser.y /tests break_label01.phpt
break_label02.phptbreak_label03.phpt break_label04.phpt break_label05.phpt break_label06.phpt

From: Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:48:21 +0000
Subject: Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2 / zend_compile.c zend_compile.hzend_globals.h zend_language_parser.y /tests break_label01.phpt
break_label02.phptbreak_label03.phpt break_label04.phpt break_label05.phpt break_label06.phpt
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Hello Dmitry,

Monday, March 6, 2006, 8:19:50 AM, you wrote:

> Hi Markus,

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Marcus Boerger [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 2:22 PM
>> To: Dmitry Stogov
>> Cc: 'Andi Gutmans'; 'Rasmus Lerdorf'; Derick Rethans; 
>> [email protected]; Sara Golemon; 'Edin Kadribasic'
>> Subject: Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2 / 
>> zend_compile.c zend_compile.hzend_globals.h 
>> zend_language_parser.y /tests break_label01.phpt 
>> break_label02.phptbreak_label03.phpt break_label04.phpt 
>> break_label05.phpt break_label06.phpt
>> 
>> 
>> Hello Dmitry,
>> 
>> Sunday, March 5, 2006, 11:46:38 AM, you wrote:
>> 
>> > Guys,
>> 
>> > The committed patch was posted into @iternals and discussed at 
>> > December or January. It is not based on PDM's decision, and have 
>> > nothing common with goto semantic.
>> 
>> > THE PATCH REUSES JAVA SYNTAX AND SYMANTIC.
>> 
>> But we are not Java and we don't want to be and we share 
>> little Java syntax semantics. Actually only the keywords 
>> 'interface' and 'final' and the fact that one has to specify 
>> visibility for every member of a class. And all of those are 
>> late additions to php in 5. For the rest of php we share c 
>> syntax and semantics. Thus adding any of those strange java 
>> workarounds makes out a very confusing php. Furthermore it 
>> means that when adding some java syntax that exists in C/C++ 
>> in a different way we head in a wrong direction.

> Reusing "break label" syntax with symantic that differ from Java and other
> languages will confuse much more people.
> I am speaking about PDM's decision. And C++ hasn't "break label" syntax so
> nothing to confuse.

But they have labels and that was my pont.

> We already discussed this patch and nobody except Zeev was against it.

Out of curiosity, was anybody pro?


Best regards,
 Marcus

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