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From: Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu>
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Subject: Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:01 PM, rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 3:08:57 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:52 AM,  <> wrote:
>>>
>>> > (NOTE:  Many people are being taught to avoid 'break' and 'continue' at all
>>> > costs...
>>>
>>> Why? Why on earth should break/continue be avoided?
>>
>> Because breaks and continues are just goto-in-disguise?
>>
>> [Well so is while and if and function-call and... Who is to say that?]
>
> And that's still not a reason imho. You've just pointed out that
> they're all control-flow. :)
>
> ChrisA

The reason I was given (which I promptly ignored, of course) is that
it's "best practice" to only have one exit point for a block of code.
Only one way of terminating your loop, only one "return" per function,
never use exceptions, etc. I think it originally came about as a way
to make sure that your clean-up code was called (and to make it easier
for code reviewers to make sure your clean up code was called) and
then started being passed around as a rule among programming teachers
who didn't have any experience outside the classroom.