try/except/finally

[Thomas Rachel]

Am 08.06.2014 05:58 schrieb Rustom Mody:

> Some people¹ think that gotos are a code-smell.
>  ¹ I am not exactly those people.
> A chap called E W Dijkstra made the statement: "Goto statement considered
> harmful" and became famous.

And became widely misunderstood. If anybody would read the whole what he 
wrote, people would learn that he doesn't criticise the *use* of goto, 
but he wants the *replacement* of goto with something else (like 
exceptions).

As C doesn't have exceptions, goto is in many cases the simplest and 
easiest way of handling errors.

Essentially, you can write both good and bad code both with and without 
goto.


Thomaas