Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile

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On 26 Jun 2013 12:33:39 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following:

>You cannot jump into the middle of a function, or to an arbitrary line, 
>or into a loop. But this is a good thing -- languages that allow 
>unrestricted flow control end up with unmaintainable spaghetti code.

	I once encountered something like (F77):

	if condition1 then
		some computation
		if condition2 goto 1000
 2000	continue
		more computations
	else
		another computation
		if condtion3 goto 2000
 1000	continue
		last computations
	end if

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Is this PEP-able? fwhile jimjhb@aol.com - 2013-06-25 12:39 -0400
  Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-26 12:33 +0000
    Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-06-26 06:14 -0700
    Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-06-26 23:29 -0400
  Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-06-26 06:59 -0700

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