Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 2005-04-21, Sergei Organov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> On 2005-04-21, Sergei Organov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Well, I'm writing for embedded realtime systems in C/C++ and
> >> > have never encountered a single need to use goto.
> >> 
> >> I have encountered situations in C programs where the best
> >> thing to use was a goto.  Those situations have always been
> >> handled beutifully by a "raise" in Python.
> >
> > setjmp/longjump?
> 
> I've always found setjmp/longjmp much more confusing and hard
> to maintain than a simple goto.  It also requires library
> support that goto doesn't.

Agreed. The 'goto error' idiom is in fact the only goto usage I do
agree with provided there is no support for exceptions, but that's not
applicable to Python anyway.

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Sergei.
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