Re: try ... finally ...

Joachim Durchholz <jo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 28.02.2008, 11:16 +0000 schrieb Ian.Stark@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > There's a further refinement of this in the "exceptional syntax"
> > proposed by Benton+Kennedy in JFP 11(4):394-410
> > 
> >   http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0956796801004099
> >   http://research.microsoft.com/~akenn/sml/ExceptionalSyntax.pdf
> > 
> > where you want to identify code that runs only if an exception is not
> > raised.  Independently, Erlang introduced the same thing:
> > 
> >  try Expr of 
> >    Pattern1 [when Guard1] -> Body1;
> >    ...
> >  catch
> >    ExceptionPattern1 [when ExceptionGuard1] -> ExceptionBody1
> >    ...
> >  after
> >    FinalBody

> I have known this idiom as try-catch-finally (I think these keywords are
> used in Delphi).  [...]

Note that this (try-...-finally) is *not* the main point of the
Exceptional Syntax article.  (Note the pattern match between "of" and
"catch" in the above Erlang example.)  I recommend reading the Exceptional
Syntax article.

-Vesa Karvonen