[Python-ideas] Add "goto fail" to Python?

[Yann Kaiser]

Ah, my bad, I had received this message an hour before midnight in my
timezone so my brain shorted out. Isn't this more of an
insignificant-whitespace issue? We need more significant whitespace.

On 7 March 2014 02:12, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Sturla's original email was quite subtle, but you may have missed that
> he is proposing this as a joke PEP for April Fools Day, a bit like the
> introduction of GOTO or the retirement of Guido:
>
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2004-April/002982.html
>
> http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0401/
>
> As a joke, it pokes fun at Apple's recent "goto fail" security breach.
> Unfortunately the Python C source code apparently uses exactly the same
> "goto fail" idiom, although hopefully not as poorly as Apple did.
>
>
>
> --
> Steven
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