{"by":"wooby","id":649856,"parent":649804,"text":"It's not negative in that, people can program using whatever language they want using whatever language constructs they want.<p>But for PHP, which is mostly for web development, I would think using exceptions is a much peer-friendlier way of handling what you'd probably be using goto for in a web app.<p>If you're writing state machines or parsers, PHP probably isn't the way to go anyway. But hey - whatever floats your boat.","time":1244577821,"type":"comment"}