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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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