to further nitpick and distract from the main conversation, it sounds like they are talking about non-local goto (setjmp etc in c), which, just like an actual g

to further nitpick and distract from the main conversation, it sounds like they are talking about non-local goto (setjmp etc in c), which, just like an actual goto statement, is useful for error handling, but is much more difficult to deal with that a normal goto.