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Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile

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On Jun 26, 2013, at 7:49 AM, Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 Jun 2013 11:45, <jimjhb@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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...
> 
> 

Wondered when that would be mentioned.

Personally, I've never found that much use for GoTo, but as old timers know, that same module adds the Come_From entry point, which is priceless.  ;-)

Bill

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