[Tutor] Repeating a routine

[Brian Gustin]

yeah GOTO , in basic (I used to write software in Commodore BASIC 
myself) is similar to a for or while loop -

In BASIC, you would write a program, *including* line numbers  thus:

10 a=32
20 b="hello"
30 print a
40 print b
50 a=a-1
60 if a > 0 goto 20
70 end

(It's probably not 100% syntactically correct, but the general idea is
it would print "hello" 33 times and then end..)

in python, you would do :

a=32
b=hello
c=0
while c <= a:
   print b
   c = c+1

for the same results- that's what GOTO in BASIC would be used for
BASIC also had subroutines, which are GOSUB, which equate to perl's sub, 
php's function, or python's def

Just my 2 cents worth :)

Bri!



Pawel Kraszewski wrote:
> Dnia środa, 22 lutego 2006 12:43, John Connors napisał:
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>>I know goto and gosub are evil, bad habits but I'm starting to miss them.
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> You SHOULD miss them. GOSUB is called a function call in Python (you call a 
> function by its name, rather than by its starting line number)
> 
> Someone misinformed you: GOSUB is perfectly good. It's GOTO that's evil.
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