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Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile

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On 26 Jun 2013 11:45, <jimjhb@aol.com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:30:54 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote:
> > In my experience the sorts of people who preach "one exit point" are
> > also all about defining preconditions and postconditions and proving
> > that the postconditions follow from the preconditions.  I think that
> > the two are linked, because the "one exit point" rule makes those
> > sorts of proofs simpler.
>
> Ah! utopia!
>
> For every one who knows about pre/post/invariant conditions, there are 10
who follow goto-statement-is-harmful like a religious edict.
>
>
>
> 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????  :)
>

What is the matter? Just use the goto module...

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