On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:39:53 -0400, jimjhb wrote: > I just checked and MISRA-C 2012 now allows gotos in specific, limited > circumstances. I think it was the MISRA-C 1998 standard that caused all > this trouble. So if MISRA now allows goto, why not Python???? :)
[humour] You can! Just use the goto module. It supports both GOTO and COMEFROM: http://entrian.com/goto/ [/humour] But seriously... GOTO works best in low-level languages. It is not very well suited for high-level languages like Python. Nevertheless, Python does support a very limited number of flow control statements which are like GOTO in some ways: `break` and `continue` for jumping out of loops, and exceptions which are cheap enough to be used as flow control. You cannot jump into the middle of a function, or to an arbitrary line, or into a loop. But this is a good thing -- languages that allow unrestricted flow control end up with unmaintainable spaghetti code. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
