"Donn Cave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In its day, goto was of course very well loved.
Does anybody know for sure if it is in fact possible to design a language completely free from conditional jumps? At the lower level, I don't think you can get away with conditional calls - hence the "jumps with dark glasses", continue and break. I don't think you can get that functionality in another way. Think of solving the problem of reading a text file to find the first occurrence of some given string - can it be done without either break or continue? (given that you have to stop when you have found it) I can't think of a way, even in assembler, to do this without using a conditional jump - but maybe my experience has poisoned my mind, as I see the humble if statement as a plethora of local jumps... - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
