Posted by Toby Inkster on 03/08/06 10:47

bobmct wrote:

> The PHP docs state that its break statement can take an optional
> parameter which represents the "number" of levels to break out of.
> Now this seems like it could work. However, I see a problem with
> ongoing maintenance if someone inserts or removes another level which
> would cause that number to be inaccurate.

The number of levels can be a variable rather than hard-coded, so there
might be scope to do something there, but it might be a bit nasty.

PHP's lack of "next" and "last" are a little irritating.

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