Troll? was: Re: goto statement
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu
Wed Apr 20 12:56:58 EDT 2005
Maxim Kasimov wrote:
> André Roberge wrote:
>
>> Maxim Kasimov wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> by the way, "goto" statement will be useful for writing more powerful
>>> obfuscators
>>>
>> Let me get that clear: you want a goto to help with debugging.
>>
>> And you want to obfuscate your code even more?
>>
>> !?
>>
>> Perhaps you need to write in Perl, or some other similar language.
>>
>> Writing in Python is for those that seek clarity (not obfuscation) and
>> less bugs. Which is why a goto statement should definitely never be
>> part of Python!
>>
>> André
>>
>
> so insulting to me - you asking i'm a troll, only becose i'm saing that
> goto maybe sometimes usefull.
No, because you said that it was useful for obfuscating code.
Obfuscating code is generally not a desirable feature of a language
construct.
--
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu
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Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
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