rbt wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: > >>Download the goto module: >> http://www.entrian.com/goto/ >>And you can use goto to your heart's content. And to the horror of all >>your friends/coworkers. ;) > > Shouldn't that be "to the horror of all your goto-snob friends." > > IMO, most of the people who deride goto do so because they heard or read > where someone else did. > > Many of the world's most profitable software companies (MS for example) > have thousands of goto statements in their code... oh the horror of it > all. Why aren't these enlightened-by-the-gods know-it-alls as profitable > as these obviously ignorant companies?
Perhaps I should reiterate: ;) Oh, and ;) The CPython source code is filled with gotos -- with a rough grep count, I found over 2000. And, while I wouldn't care to inspect them all, I'd guess that they're mostly quite appropriate. A lot of them look like "goto fail", "goto finally", etc. and are used to handle error conditions. Heck, the patch I wrote to add key= arguments to min() and max() in Python 2.5 uses goto for exactly this purpose. That said, I don't think my joke was really that inaccurate -- I have yet to see a good use case for gotos in Python. Why use gotos when you have an efficient exception handling mechanism? STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
