Python soon to develop goto ?

[Christian Tismer]

BB wrote:
> http://www.python.org/2.3/NEWS.html reads :
> 
>  > A frame object's f_lineno attribute can now be written to from a trace
>  > function to change which line will execute next.

This is a feature to support debugging, like
stepping over a bad statement without executing
it. Certainly it is not meant to be abused to
create a goto construct. If that had been in mind,
a simple syntactig addition to the intepreter would
have done it, because there are internal jump opcodes
for the implementation of if-then-else and friends.

ciao -- chris
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