musou wrote on February 7, 2018 at 9:37 PM

i don't know any python... but i've maintained a lot of ruby where exceptions were used as flow control. that felt remarkably similar to using gotos in ti-basic. every rescue is a label, every raise is a goto.

twovests OP wrote on February 7, 2018 at 10:13 PM

that sounds so awful

that can't be normal for ruby, can it? please tell me it's not :'(

musou wrote on February 7, 2018 at 10:37 PM

oh definitely not. it was exceedingly terrible code, just one of those situations where it went largely forgotten and just had to live long enough on bugfixes for a team to finish rewriting it.