<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 <i><b>at</b> 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><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Richard Tew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.m.tew@gmail.com">richard.m.tew@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2009/3/27 Phoenix Sol <<a href="mailto:phoenix@burninglabs.com">phoenix@burninglabs.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> Gee, just thinking about goto brings back childhood headaches from all that<br>
> horrible BASIC on the Commodore64 ;-)<br>
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> Please, someone explain why in the world you would want to use goto in<br>
> Python ?!<br>
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</div>Personal preference. Not believing the "goto considered harmful" hype.<br>
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Why not?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">Richard.<br>
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