On 2005-04-21, Sergei Organov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>> Well, I'm writing for embedded realtime systems in C/C++ and
>>>>> have never encountered a single need to use goto.
>>>>
>>>> I have encountered situations in C programs where the best
>>>> thing to use was a goto. Those situations have always been
>>>> handled beutifully by a "raise" in Python.
>>>
>>> setjmp/longjump?
>>
>> I've always found setjmp/longjmp much more confusing and hard
>> to maintain than a simple goto. It also requires library
>> support that goto doesn't.
>
> Agreed. The 'goto error' idiom is in fact the only goto usage
> I do agree with provided there is no support for exceptions,
> but that's not applicable to Python anyway.
Exactly. I've been writing C code for 20+ years, and the only
problems where I found goto to be a good solution are the ones
where exceptions are even better solutions in Python. I've
never found myself wishing for a goto when writing Python code.
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