[randomdata]

Functions do not exist in the context of the "Go to statement considered harmful" paper, so there is no good analog in there. Further, he is specific that it is only about unbridled gotos. continue and break are decidedly bridled. In reality, the paper just doesn't apply to any language created in the last several decades, even those which use the goto keyword. We bought in to structured programming.

Except I posit that throw/catch still suffers the same problem he speaks of. It becomes difficult to follow when and where the code will jump to an arbitrary spot. The harmful parts of goto live on. Granted, we are learning. Modern languages are abandoning the throw/catch concept.

[gordian-not]

I agree about the somewhat unexpectedness of exceptions, although it is much structured than gotos (you just go up the stack)

virtual polymorphism for example is completely unexpected, as well as function pointers and other constructs that in my opinion are harder to track than exceptions