Exceptions are pretty much the perfect example of (bad) magic actually; unannotated, dynamically dispatched nonlocal control flow that can execute code (ie, destructors) in completely unrelated contexts on the way past. At least 0x5F3759DF can be boxed into a function and commented in one place.

> Go's definition of "magic" is somewhat akin to a 15th century peasant seeing a lightbulb.

This is very true and well put though.