something i actually thought today: "i wish python had goto statements"

Submitted by twovests at February 7, 2018, 6:15 PM in programming

Reason: I'm doing some assembly code for a class, and it'd be a lot easier to verify that my structure is good using Python lol.

anyways what does this mean for me as a human being?

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Moonside wrote at February 7, 2018, 7:19 PM

Get rid of that seat belt bucko. . . In this world, in street racing, it's kill or be killed.

twovests wrote at February 7, 2018, 6:31 PM

I could also do this in C, but I like Python a bunch

cute_spider_ni_srsly wrote at February 7, 2018, 7:33 PM

There are two different python libraries which create a goto method.

twovests wrote at February 7, 2018, 8:47 PM

https://github.com/snoack/python-goto

if only i googled better

musou wrote at February 7, 2018, 9:37 PM

i don't know any python... but i've maintained a lot of ruby where exceptions were used as flow control. that felt remarkably similar to using gotos in ti-basic. every rescue is a label, every raise is a goto.

twovests wrote at February 7, 2018, 10:13 PM

that sounds so awful

that can't be normal for ruby, can it? please tell me it's not :'(

musou wrote at February 7, 2018, 10:37 PM

oh definitely not. it was exceedingly terrible code, just one of those situations where it went largely forgotten and just had to live long enough on bugfixes for a team to finish rewriting it.