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A comment on Bug #48669: PHP now includes GOTO.

Re:Bug #48669: PHP now includes GOTO by jdale27 on Friday August 21, 2009 @05:16PM (#778484)
"Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell."

-- Erik Naggum, http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/bb32931876...

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Re:Bug #48669: PHP now includes GOTO by TimMontague on Friday August 21, 2009 @08:20PM (#778780)
A few years back, Linus and some kernel hackers had a good discussion about the good gotos vs. the bad gotos.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/553

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Re:Bug #48669: PHP now includes GOTO by rjprins on Monday August 24, 2009 @07:52AM (#781924)
Every function call is a goto.
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