For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Sun Feb 9 15:55:51 EST 2003


Roy Smith wrote:

> Just to inject a bit of history, this is FORTRAN's computed goto
> wrapped
> up as an expression.

Some basic variants had ON...GOTO... and ON...GOSUB... as well, almost
certainly stolen from Fortran.

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