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

Ryan rymg19 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 03:21:13 CET 2014


Wow, those links are hilarious.

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.
>
>
>
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