Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> Some HLLs almost have to have it by definition. I cut my teeth as programmer > writing for embedded realtime systems in a HLL (PL/M). While you could, > in theory, completely avoid 'goto' in a realtime environment, it would > make all manner of practical programming problems kind of ugly to implement. > BTW, all modern systems come complete with 'goto' implemented in > *hardware* - they're called "interrupts". Well, I'm writing for embedded realtime systems in C/C++ and have never encountered a single need to use goto. Comparing interrupts to goto doesn't make any sense for me either. For example, most architectures have 'branch' *hardware* instructions that are much more close equivalents to goto than interrupts are, but that doesn't justify use of goto in high-level languages in any way. -- Sergei. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
