GOTO w/ Python?

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Thu Jun 20 04:28:40 EDT 2002


"John Roth" <johnroth at ameritech.net> writes:

> There's no equivalent of a goto command in Python, for good reason,
> which I won't repeat here. Prof. Djikstra did it very well in 1974,
> in his letter "Goto Considered Harmful."

There are also technical difficulties implementing it (the
blockstack), or I'd have probably done goto functionality in
bytecodehacks :)

Cheers,
M.

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