Re: Exception handlers

• Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:18:11 PST
• From:
  Pavel Curtis <pavel@parc.xerox.com>
• Cc: MOO-Cows@parc.xerox.com
• In-reply-to: Tom Meyer's message of "Tue, 20 Feb 1996 21:19:37 PST" <199602210519.AAA06892@unnamed.cs.brown.edu>

Tom Meyer writes:
> I've been playing a bit with the exception handlers in 1.8.0beta3, and
> don't understand why I can't do the following:
>   try
>     <some code here>
>   except
>     <some exception>
>   finally
>     <Code to clean up in any case>
>   endtry
> 
> I can use either the EXCEPT or the FINALLY part in the try statement,
> but can't use both.

You can't do this because I didn't implement it that way and it would be
difficult to fix it now.  Write something like that as follows:

	try
	  try
	    <some code here>
	  except (...)
	    <some handler>
	  endtry
	finally
	  <Code to clean up in any case>
	endtry

I actually find this more readable, since it's more clear which of the EXCEPT
and FINALLY parts is wrapped more tightly around the main TRY body.

	Pavel

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