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		72deluxe on March 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of app... It's amusing but I never thought of exceptions as gotos. But that's what they in essence.

ksk on March 5, 2014 [–]

How are exceptions like gotos? I don't see any similarity. If by "essence" you mean they jump to a specific line of code, then lots of things can do that - switch/case , if/else, do/while, function calls/returns, etc.

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