Question

I’ve heard rumors that PHP is planning on introducing a ‘goto’ command. What is it supposed to be doing?

I’ve tried searching a bit, but haven’t found anything awfully descriptive. I understand that it won’t be a ‘GOTO 10‘-like command…

Answer 1

They are not adding a real GOTO, but extending the BREAK keyword to use static labels. Basically, it will be enhancing the ability to break out of switch nested if statements. Here’s the concept example I found:

<?php for ($i = 0; $i < 9; $i++) {     if (true) {         break blah;     }     echo 'not shown';     blah:     echo 'iteration $i\n'; } ?> 

Of course, once the GOTO ‘rumor’ was out, there was nothing to stop some evil guys to propagate an additional COMEFROM joke. Be on your toes.

See also:

http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#adding-goto