In article 294B@uab.ericsson.se, Fredrik Jonsson <euafjo@uab.ericsson.se> writes:
> I know the finally statement was mentioned/discussed during
> afterwork hours at the Santa Cruz meeting but unfortunately
> that is about it. (I agree with you that it is very convenient
> to have the finally block, and most Borland Delphi or Java
> programmers will agree on that.)
>
> Ie. the answer to your question would be no, it has not been
> discussed, at least not as far as I know.

The "finally" block has been discussed in the extensions working group, which
was the one chartered to deal with exception issues. I don't remember exactly
when, but it was quite a while ago (2 years?) and it was rejected as having
insufficient value to justify a further extension.

I have insufficient interest to go through my rather large collection of
X3J16 mailings to discover the details.

---
Michael Ball
SunSoft Development Products



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