tbh i don't know Go too well. as i understand it, `panic` can indeed hijack the control flow, i.e. stop it. but any function¹ can do that: just do `while 1 {}`!

tbh i don't know Go too well. as i understand it, `panic` can indeed hijack the control flow, i.e. stop it. but any function¹ can do that: just do `while 1 {}`! control flow won't return to the caller either way. so it's not that weird after all Ruby blocks can do non-local control flow, i.e. return from their surrounding function, but that's what makes them distinct from functions. --- ¹ in a turing-complete language (i'm a Haskell enthusiast, so please excuse the nitpicking :)