On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 08:35:35PM -0400, David Mertz wrote: > Goto considered harmful.
Fortunately this proposal has nothing to do with goto. Elazar is correct that its a kind of subroutine call, just like an ordinary function call, except the scoping rules are different. And for the record, not everyone agrees that Dijkstra is correct about goto. Certainly unstructured code is harmful, but we use restricted forms of goto all the time, we just don't call it by that name: - loops - continue - break - if...else - function calls - exception handling Just like goto, these are all jumps which change the execution order of your code. And some people defend limited, careful use of explicit goto, including Donald Knuth. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
