> No matter how you slice it, exceptions are still a goto under the covers. This is a poor argument; the same could be said for almost all control flow stateme

> No matter how you slice it, exceptions are still a goto under the covers. This is a poor argument; the same could be said for almost all control flow statements: if/else, while, for, break, continue, (early)return ... they're all implemented using "goto under the covers". Moreover, lots of C programs use goto to do their error handling! Seeing "throw" statements as gotos misses the point: you can't really create spaghetti control flow using "throw" statements. Instead, you can see them as "return on steroids". It's true that "try-catch" makes it hard to know where your code is gonna "jump" ; but that's the point : as the "thrower", you don't have to know, and you don't /want/ to know. Think about the standard libraries for Java, C#, Python, D ... they don't have this luxury. If when using "throw", you're wondering "where's the catch", then you /probably/ have a design issue.