goto statement

[Philippe C. Martin]

I guess the point could be "where do you draw the line": you can break and
continue in Python, but you cannot goto. Some people, so it seems ;-) ,
would like to see gotos in Python whereas other think breaks and continues
should be excluded ...;

Regards,

Philippe



Steve Holden wrote:

> Philippe C. Martin wrote:
>> I do not want to pollute the debate but:
>> 
>> -) I remember a software QA managanager responsible for "C" coding rules
>> also not allowing us to use 'break', 'continue', or 'return' (in the
>> middle of a function).
>> 
> And I once worked (back in the 1970's) in a software shop where "because
> procedure calls are slow in PL/1" we had to write them so each procedure
> ended with a GOTO to a specific label variable. You would call these
> monstrosities in the following way:
> 
>      MyProcReturn = DoneIt;
>      GOTO MyProc;
> DoneIt:
>      ...
> 
> Horrendous. I lasted about five months and then couldn't take the
> ignorance and idiocy any longer. They refused to believe that a
> recursive function could ever be useful in the real world (but then, if
> you only have a hammer ...)
> 
> regards
>   Steve