This was me, looking how to install PHP 5.3 in the new Ubuntu Karmic, because using the new functionality of late static binding will simplify my code, and I’ve found something amazing. A new feature that was missing in PHP, but they have included in PHP 5.3…

the…

wait for it….

wait for it….

wait for it….

GOTO

It’s amazing how PHP team is including in the same release high-level features, as well as a low-level feature like that (BTW most of the people will consider this feature harmful). They should have felt a great pressure from people or something, because I cannot find any reasonable reason for them to include it…

In the PHP goto documentation you will see that at least, they are funny about it:

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