Style question: returning error values from functions

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sun Jul 13 00:33:00 EDT 2003


On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 04:48 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

> The optional 'finally' clause is executed however control gets out of 
> the try.  Use it like this:
>
> local veryVeryLargeTempArray
> try
>   build veryVeryLargeTempArray
>   doSomethingWith veryVeryLargeTempArray
> catch errVal
>   throw errVal
> finally
>   put empty into veryVeryLargeTempArray
> end try

This is a crummy example unless local is changed to global or some 
other cleanup is needed because the array is emptied.

Sigh.

Dar




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