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. -- Sergei. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
