yeah GOTO , in basic (I used to write software in Commodore BASIC myself) is similar to a for or while loop -
In BASIC, you would write a program, *including* line numbers thus: 10 a=32 20 b="hello" 30 print a 40 print b 50 a=a-1 60 if a > 0 goto 20 70 end (It's probably not 100% syntactically correct, but the general idea is it would print "hello" 33 times and then end..) in python, you would do : a=32 b=hello c=0 while c <= a: print b c = c+1 for the same results- that's what GOTO in BASIC would be used for BASIC also had subroutines, which are GOSUB, which equate to perl's sub, php's function, or python's def Just my 2 cents worth :) Bri! Pawel Kraszewski wrote: > Dnia środa, 22 lutego 2006 12:43, John Connors napisał: > > > >>I know goto and gosub are evil, bad habits but I'm starting to miss them. > > > You SHOULD miss them. GOSUB is called a function call in Python (you call a > function by its name, rather than by its starting line number) > > Someone misinformed you: GOSUB is perfectly good. It's GOTO that's evil. > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > !DSPAM:43fc986c278471677385699! > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
