On 18/10/2013 08:44, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On 18/10/2013 00:53, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
You know, I'd heard somewhere that Goto was considered harmful.... trying
to remember exactly where....
Yep, but it's used throughout the CPython code for error handling, nothing
wrong with that as it's crystal clear that you're going to one place for one
purpose. Contrast that with its use in spaghetti code where you're leaping
around like a naked person on an ant hill.
How bad can it be?
http://xkcd.com/292/
ChrisA
Love it :)
See also http://matplotlib.org/xkcd/index.html ???
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