On Sunday, June 8, 2014 5:17:21 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: > > I don't remember if I almost had this in real code or if I learned about it > > first, but it can definitely be a gotcha. It seems to me that if the try > > block exits with an explicit return, and then the finally block exits with > > an explicit return, some kind of error ought to be raised.
> I'd go a little simpler: A return statement inside a finally block is > code smell. Some people¹ think that gotos are a code-smell. And since both return and exceptions are thinly veiled gotos, what we have here are two smells outsmelling each other. ¹ I am not exactly those people. A chap called E W Dijkstra made the statement: "Goto statement considered harmful" and became famous. The chap who taught me programming said to me: "What the goto does to control structure, the assignment does to data structure" He did not become famous. However in my view he made the more intelligent statement -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
