On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <mailman.1737.1317798109.27778.python-l...@python.org>, > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Definitely. There's always a right time to do the wrong thing, just as >> much as there's a wrong time to do the right thing. Even the >> much-maligned goto has its place. > > Not in python, it doesn't :-)
The absence from the language doesn't prove that. All it means is that, on those rare occasions when a goto would have been correct, the programmer had to make do with something else :-) How often do you see a loop structure that exists solely so someone can 'break' out of it? Or, worse, raising an exception? I haven't seen it in Python, but frequently in C or C++ code where the programmer had a fixation on avoiding gotos. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
