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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>C64 basic wasn‘t very nice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I entered some Vic20 programs from magazines so I understand
your pain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>There was, of course, GOSUB, and BBC Basic had Procedures and
functions...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Anyway:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>You will find „goto“ used extensively in the cpython
implementation, particularly for handling error cases. It certainly is a good
use of it in the absence of exception handling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>K<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Phoenix Sol
[mailto:phoenix@burninglabs.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 27. mars 2009 15:30<br>
<b>To:</b> Richard Tew<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Christian Tismer; Kristján Valur Jónsson; stackless@stackless.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stackless] [Fwd: Wtrlt: Antw: Re: implementation of 'goto'
for stackless python]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b>goto</b><br>
<br>
<silly face/> I just don't get it. I'm totally clueless. Stumped;
Stupefied.<br>
I really thought maybe it was a joke. I'm thankful for the laugh, honestly.
<deep sigh/><br>
( no offense, please, I'm not laughing <b><i>at</i></b><i> anyone</i> here;
pfff, <i>laugh at me</i> if you want to... )<br>
<br>
Maybe if I looked at a Python implementation of goto, instead of wasting your
precious time, then I would get it...<br>
<br>
I suppose I have it ingrained in my mind that goto must only exist in a
line-oriented context. I grant that it probably isn't theoretically confined
there, but I don't see how it could be sufficiently useful to carry it
elsewhere. Especially when we have tasklets, channels, and channel-wrapped
sockets and pipes, oh my! What is goto going to help out with here?<br>
<br>
I'm not making fun of the idea (or anyone who favors it), I'm just very
amused... maybe it's the childhood trauma ;-)<br>
I must have spent months of my childhood, around age 8 - 9, transcribing BASIC
from those horrible magazines and books. My mother kindly helped with
proof-reading and debugging. After (who knows how many) mind-numbing hours of
torture I began to understand a lot of the syntax and started writing my own
simple programs. But those games <i>really sucked ass</i>, and were hardly
rewarding... so I tossed the damned things (those infernal C64's and C128's),
and hardly touched a computer again until I was about 19 ;-)<br>
<br>
I'm still convinced that computers are fundamentally evil ;-)<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Richard Tew <<a
href="mailto:richard.m.tew@gmail.com">richard.m.tew@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>2009/3/27 Phoenix Sol <<a
href="mailto:phoenix@burninglabs.com">phoenix@burninglabs.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>> Gee, just thinking about
goto brings back childhood headaches from all that<br>
> horrible BASIC on the Commodore64 ;-)<br>
><br>
> Please, someone explain why in the world you would want to use goto in<br>
> Python ?!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Personal preference. Not believing the "goto
considered harmful" hype.<br>
<br>
Why not?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<span style='color:#888888'>Richard.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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