== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article > D has three: RAII, scope guard, and try-catch-finally. As far as I'm > concerned, the only reason t-c-f isn't taken out to the woodshed and > shot is to make it easy to translate code from other languages to D.
I've literally never written a finally block in my life in D because scope statements and RAII are just that good. Does anyone, other than a few beginners who were unaware of scope guards, use finally? I'm half-tempted to say we should just axe it. It's an error prone legacy feature that's completely useless for any purpose except writing Java or C# code in D. Since we're looking to lighten the spec, ditching finally would do so, and it would encourage converts from Java and C# to learn a better way of doing clean-up code.
