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Subject: Re: Possibly better loop construct, also labels+goto important and on the fly compiler idea.
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 08:40:47 +0100
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On 18/10/2013 00:53, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
> You know, I'd heard somewhere that Goto was considered harmful.... trying to remember exactly where....
>

Yep, but it's used throughout the CPython code for error handling, 
nothing wrong with that as it's crystal clear that you're going to one 
place for one purpose.  Contrast that with its use in spaghetti code 
where you're leaping around like a naked person on an ant hill.

-- 
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Violets are blue,
Most poems rhyme,
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Mark Lawrence