"rbt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 12:27 -0600, Steven Bethard wrote: > > Hayri ERDENER wrote: > > > what is the equivalent of C languages' goto statement in python? > > > > 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. ;) > > > > STeVe > > 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?
It should not really come as a shock that the same fellow who came up with a brilliant efficient way to generate all permutations (http://tinyurl.com/dnazs) is also in favor of goto. Coming next from rbt: "Pointer arithmetic in python ?". George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
