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.

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Robert Kern
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