[Python-3000] Announcing PEP 3136 (original) (raw)

John S. Yates, Jr. john at yates-sheets.org
Wed Jul 4 15:41:48 CEST 2007

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

Do you consider this to be for or against the PEP? Rereading it....

At least half Knuth's goto examples are covered by Python's single level restricted gotos:

In all honesty I did not reread the paper. I posted based on the recollection that it was the basis for my feeling no compunction about using reviled gotos in my C / C++ code to effect multi-level exists and continuations. When called to task by my peers I invoke Knuth's name.

Let's chalk it up to the fallibility of memory over a span of more than 30 years. Thank's for keeping me honest. I am printing out the paper. Rereading it should help me recall the state of programming when I was first starting out.

/john

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