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Re: terminate a PHP script [message #172545 is a reply to message #172544]

Mon, 21 February 2011 18:50

Tim Streater
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In article <ijub3f$cqn$2(at)news(dot)eternal-september(dot)org>,
sheldonlg <sheldonlg(at)thevillages(dot)net> wrote:

> On 21/2/2011 1:04 PM, Tim Streater wrote:
>> In article <iju7sd$9fc$1(at)news(dot)eternal-september(dot)org>,
>> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>>> goto is NEVER needed, and SELDOM a good thing to use. It completely
>>> violates structured programming practices and causes more problems
>>> than it solves.
>>
>> By and large this is true. With one exception, I haven't used one since
>> 1978 when I stopped using FORTRAN.
>>
>> The exception was when doing some Pascal under RSX-11M. There was no
>> "return" statement, so I had to fake one up by putting a 999: label at
>> the end of any procedure where I wanted an early return, and then goto 999.
>
> Again, why not if-then-else?

You mean, as in SESE?

Because of the incredible convolution and depth of nested if/then/else
you can get to. If I have (as it might be) a function that's scanning a
string looking for and obtaining options and their values for some
command previously scanned off the string, and I detect an error, I want
to set an error code and exit right there. I don't want any subsequent
maintainer to have to intuit that, in fact, from this point on nested
15-deep in else clauses, no more code is executed for that path through
the function.

That way I rarely get more than 3-deep in if/then/else. To me, it's all
about readbility.

--
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" -- Bill of Rights 1689

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		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 19 February 2011 21:59
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 20 February 2011 00:38
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 20 February 2011 01:04
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		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 24 February 2011 12:51
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		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 24 February 2011 17:51
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sun, 20 February 2011 09:47
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		Re: terminate a PHP script By: n00m on Mon, 21 February 2011 12:53
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		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Denis McMahon on Mon, 21 February 2011 17:06
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: sheldonlg on Mon, 21 February 2011 17:23
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 22 February 2011 00:28
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: sheldonlg on Tue, 22 February 2011 00:52
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 22 February 2011 01:00
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 22 February 2011 01:46
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: sheldonlg on Tue, 22 February 2011 02:08
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 22 February 2011 03:55
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: sheldonlg on Tue, 22 February 2011 12:06
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 23 February 2011 08:18
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Tim Streater on Tue, 22 February 2011 17:18
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: sheldonlg on Tue, 22 February 2011 17:26
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 23 February 2011 08:21
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 21 February 2011 17:37
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: sheldonlg on Mon, 21 February 2011 17:53
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: n00m on Mon, 21 February 2011 18:01
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		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Curtis Dyer on Tue, 22 February 2011 22:59
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Tim Streater on Mon, 21 February 2011 18:04
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: sheldonlg on Mon, 21 February 2011 18:32
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Tim Streater on Mon, 21 February 2011 18:50
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Peter H. Coffin on Mon, 21 February 2011 19:09
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Tim Streater on Mon, 21 February 2011 19:44
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 22 February 2011 01:16
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: n00m on Tue, 22 February 2011 01:28
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 22 February 2011 01:47
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: sheldonlg on Tue, 22 February 2011 02:10
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: n00m on Tue, 22 February 2011 02:45
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 22 February 2011 01:15
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: sheldonlg on Tue, 22 February 2011 01:53
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 22 February 2011 03:16
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Tim Streater on Tue, 22 February 2011 17:01
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: sheldonlg on Tue, 22 February 2011 17:05
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: sheldonlg on Tue, 22 February 2011 17:07
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Tim Streater on Tue, 22 February 2011 16:59
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 23 February 2011 08:19
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 22 February 2011 01:12
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Tim Streater on Tue, 22 February 2011 17:04
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: n00m on Mon, 21 February 2011 18:54
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 21 February 2011 19:39
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: sheldonlg on Mon, 21 February 2011 21:03
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: sheldonlg on Mon, 21 February 2011 21:06
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: n00m on Mon, 21 February 2011 21:46
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 22 February 2011 01:24
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: sheldonlg on Tue, 22 February 2011 02:04
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 22 February 2011 02:09
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 22 February 2011 03:38
		Re: terminate a PHP script By: sheldonlg on Tue, 22 February 2011 11:54
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