&gt; Oh, that&#x27;s another minus: love to redefine well-known terms. Panics are exceptions<p>The point of calling them panic is so they&#x27;re not interpreted as exceptions and people used to exceptions-as-an-error-reporting-mechanism don&#x27;t try to use them so.<p>&gt; they behave exactly as exceptions, just unhandled<p>The &quot;unhandled&quot; part is exactly why they&#x27;re not called exceptions.