Python and Flaming Thunder

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Daniel Fetchinson writes:

>>>> Or just:
>>>>
>>>> If command is "quit" ...
>>>
>>> Hmmm.  In Flaming Thunder, I'm using "is" (and "is an", "is a", etc)
>>> for assigning and checking types.  For example, to read data from a
>>> file and check for errors:
>>>
>>>      Read data from "input.txt".
>>>      If data is an error then go to ...
>>
>> Arf ! A goto !
>
> You are surely aware of the fact that the C source of python also uses
> goto at tons of places. Is that Arf! too?

In the hands of a skilled person who really knows what he/she does,
it can be a useful statement.  But this collides with the goals of
FT, which claims to be simple to use.  Besides, the above use case
for a goto is definitively awful.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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