Do you consider this technique “BAD”?

Question

Sometimes you need to skip execution of part of a method under certain non-critical error conditions. You can use exceptions for that, but exceptions generally are not

Answer 1

Basically you just described goto. I use goto in C all the time. I don't consider it bad, unless you use it to emulate a loop (never ever do that!). My typical usage of goto in C is to emulate exceptions (C has no exceptions):

// Code

if (bad_thing_happened) goto catch;

// More code

if (bad_thing_happened) goto catch;

// Even more code

finally:

// This code is executed in any case
// whether we have an exception or not,
// just like finally statement in other
// languages

return whatever;

catch:

// Code to handle bad error condition

// Make sure code tagged for finally
// is executed in any case
goto finally;

Except for the fact that catch and finally have opposite order, I fail to see why this code should be BAD just because it uses goto, if a real try/catch/finally code works exactly like this and just doesn't use goto. That makes no sense. And thus I fail to see why your code should be tagged as BAD.