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- From: jdmorris@ix.netcom.com (Jason D. Morris)
- Message-ID: <314b1f7b.6864220@nntp.ix.netcom.com>
- X-Original-Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 20:09:40 GMT
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- Date: 17 Mar 96 03:57:19 GMT
- Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Exception handling -- was a finally block ever considered?
- Organization: Netcom
- References: <31475017.8100207@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <ERIC.96Mar15153848@cse.unl.edu>
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- On 16 Mar 96 10:13:46 GMT, ebiederm@cse.unl.edu (Eric W. Biederman)
- wrote:
- >This can be written quite easily as I see it with C++, though the
- >structure is a little awkward.
- >
- >Basically you just need to write a destructor. The code ordering is a
- >little less pleasant
- >Say,
- >
- >func( ... )
- >{
- > class finally{
- > public:
- > ~finally()
- > {
- > // code that would be guaranteed to execute no matter how the
- > // function was exited.
- > } finally;
- > try
- > {
- > // some code that could generate an exception...
- > }
- > catch ( // some expected exception type )
- > {
- > // handler code
- > }
- >}
-
- Ok, but that still doesn't answer my question. I didn't ask for a
- method for simulating a finally block, I asked if the committee had
- considered a finally block as part of the exception handling
- mechanism, and if they had, why it wasn't adopted.
-
- Jason
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