The goto statement in PHP. If you've ever heard of it, you might have experienced the same reaction as when someone suggests using duct tape to fix everything. Sure, it technically works, but at what cost?
Spaghetti Code Central: Imagine trying to follow a detective mystery where the detective randomly teleports around the crime scene. That's what goto does to your code. It jumps from one point to another, making the code as tangled and messy as a bowl of spaghetti. Not exactly a recipe for easy reading.
Readability? What's That?: Using goto is like writing a novel and deciding that chapters are for the weak. Skipping around makes the narrative confusing, so debugging becomes an adventure nobody signed up for. Picture your fellow developers trying to follow along, slowly losing their sanity with every jump.
There Are Better Tools: These days, we've got all sorts of nifty tools like recursion, loops and conditionals. They're like the organised friends who colour-code their planners. They help keep your code clean and easy to follow. With these alternatives, goto is the out-of-place rebel refusing to join the structure party.
Even the official PHP documentation has a cartoon, warning you against it: https://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.goto.php
Just. Don't.
Top comments (0)