Re: try ... finally ...

Am Donnerstag, den 28.02.2008, 19:53 +0000 schrieb Vesa Karvonen:
> 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.

I was going by the thread title.
Sorry if I missed a change of topic.

Regards,
Jo