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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
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"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> writes:

> Exceptions can be viewed as a sort of "limited/controlled goto" - and as
> such they can pose hazards to good software design.

I'd say it's the other way around: goto's are more limited that raising
an exception, because with a goto, you can tell statically where you're
going to, whereas an exception is a goto to a dynamically determined
label.

- Bob