bpo-43199: Briefly explain why no goto (GH-24852)
Answer "Why is there no goto?" in the Design and History FAQ.
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Why is there no goto?
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-You can use exceptions to provide a "structured goto" that even works across
+In the 1970s people realized that unrestricted goto could lead
+to messy "sphagetti" code that was hard to understand and revise.
+In a high-level language, it is also unneeded as long as there
+are ways to branch (in Python, with ``if`` statements and ``or``,
+``and``, and ``if-else`` expressions) and loop (with ``while``
+and ``for`` statements, possibly containing ``continue`` and ``break``).
+
+One can also use exceptions to provide a "structured goto"
+that works even across
function calls. Many feel that exceptions can conveniently emulate all
reasonable uses of the "go" or "goto" constructs of C, Fortran, and other
languages. For example::