It's not negative in that, people can program using whatever language they want using whatever language constructs they want. But for PHP, which is mostly for

It's not negative in that, people can program using whatever language they want using whatever language constructs they want. 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. If you're writing state machines or parsers, PHP probably isn't the way to go anyway. But hey - whatever floats your boat.