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Subject: [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions.  (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary)
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    > From: Ralph Corderoy

    > if you say above that most people are unfamiliar with them due to their
    > use of goto then that's probably wrong

I didn't say that. I was just astonished that in a long thread about handling
exceptional conditions, nobody had mentioned . . . exceptions. Clearly, either
unfamiliarity (perhaps because not many laguages provide them - as you point
out, Go does not), or not top of mind.

	Noel