> throw is not at all like GOTO They are the same thing. To see it clearly, replace each exception with a label, each "try" by a no-op, each "catch" by a labe

> throw is not at all like GOTO They are the same thing. To see it clearly, replace each exception with a label, each "try" by a no-op, each "catch" by a label statement, and each "throw" by a GOTO statement. try: foo() catch BarException baz() def foo(): ... throw BarException ... Is like: CALL foo GOTO end LABEL bar CALL baz LABEL end LABEL foo ... GOTO bar ... RET Either you have relatively simple exceptions and the equivalent GOTOs would also be simple enough to be not "considered harmful"; -or- you have complicated exceptions, which is really an ad hoc state machine, and you might be better off making that explicit rather than hiding it in a tangle of try/catch/throw control-flow logic, eh?