C#: throw

throw is a variant of goto.

Unlike goto, the programmer of the throw statement does not specify a label where the execution of the program is transferred to. It will be one of the (hopefully?) available catch blocks up the calling hierarchy.

throw also differs from goto in that the programmer passes an instance of a class that derives from System.Exception to the receiver. This allows to

• pass data from the caller of throw to the receiver in catch(ExCls data).
• somehat limit the possible set of catch() blocks that are able to receive the thrown class