Replace for Goto

[Aahz]

In article <bbeamp$6db$1 at wheel2.two14.net>,
Martin Maney  <maney at pobox.com> wrote:
>Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>>
>>        try:
>>            for ORlist in includes:
>>                try:
>>                    for filter in ORlist:
>>                        for field in curr_fields:
>>                            for item in record[field]:
>>                                if item.lower().find(filter) >= 0:
>>                                    raise Found
>>                    else:
>>                        raise NotFound
>>                except Found:
>>                    continue
>>        except NotFound:
>>            continue
>>        else:
>>            result.append(record)
>
>Speaking as one who has indented deeply when it felt appropriate, and
>actually used a triply-indirect pointer (not nested structures, just a
>few points where the code reached all the way to ***whatsit... and it
>did work and seemed perfectly reasonable at the time it was written)...
>
>That's scary.  Or was it intended as the single example for a long
>afternoon demonstrating the effects of refactoring on code readability?

It was intended as a way of completely refactoring out flag variables.
I'd say that it's very, very dense, but not that hard to understand.
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