On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 10:02 -0400, George Sakkis wrote: > "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 > >
I have moments of brilliance and moments of ignorance. You must admit though, that was a unique way of generating permutations... how many other people would have thought of that approach? It did solve my problem ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
