dsimcha wrote:
== 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.
I'm sympathetic to that point of view, but it is pure drudgery to unwind
try-catch-finally into proper scope statements.
