On Saturday, November 21, 2015 11:15:22 Shriramana Sharma via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > The page http://dlang.org/exception-safe.html says: > > "It's try-finally that becomes redundant." > > IIUC this is because we have scope(exit). > > Does this mean that `finally` should eventually be removed from the > language?
finally isn't going anywhere, and there are cases where it still makes sense. Also, when scope(exit) is used, the code is "lowered" to be use finally (i.e. the code is transformed by the compiler from one construct to another). So, currently, the only reason that scope(exit) even works is because we have finally. Getting rid of finally would mean reimplementing scope(exit) differently, and there really isn't any reason to get rid of it anyway. Just because scope(exit) is usually better doesn't mean that finally is never appropriate. - Jonathan M Davis
