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		jdale27 on Aug 21, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bug #48669: PHP now includes GOTO "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...

TimMontague on Aug 22, 2009 | [–]

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

rjprins on Aug 24, 2009 | [–]

Every function call is a goto.

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