"Goto" statement in Python

[Bernd Nawothnig]

On 2017-04-13, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2017-04-13, Rob Gaddi <rgaddi at highlandtechnology.invalid> wrote:
>
>> No, C doesn't support exception handling.  As a result, handling error 
>> conditions in C is a huge pain for which (forward-only) goto is often, 
>> while not the only remedy, the least painful one.
>
> Indeed. That is almost the only place I use 'goto' in C, and the
> almost the only place I see others use it.  Very occasionally, you see
> a the error handling goto refactored into a backwards "goto retry":
>
> this code
>
> foo()
>   {
>   while (1)
>     {
>       <some code>
>       if (<some-error-condition>)
>            goto error:
>       <more code>
>       return;
>
>     error:
>       <recover-from-error-condition>
>     }
>   }

foo()
  {
  int done = 0;
  while (! done)
    {
      <some code>
      if (<some-error-condition>) {
        <recover-from-error-condition>
      } else {
        done = 1;
        <more code>
     }
  }




Bernd

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