Goto (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

[John Q Hacker]

Sorry, delete string "n't".  I mean that you would strcuture your code
with that architecture.

Hate that.

marxos

On 1/1/18, John Q Hacker <zondervanz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I don’t use gotos in C code. Why should it be “harder” in a higher-level
>>> language?
>>
>> Good for you.
>>
>> Looking at 14 million lines of Linux kernel sources, which are in C,
>> over 100,000 of them use 'goto'. About one every 120 lines.
>
> Most use of goto's implies a lack of understanding of the unseen
> architecture of the problem domain itself (otherwise, you wouldn't
> have structured your program with that architecture).  The only
> remaining use is optimization, and most of that is probably premature,
> as use of gotos *can* make things hard to understand, but using labels
> is a pretty happy medium.
>
> Marxos
>