[Mono-list] exception semantics

Dwivedi , Ajay Kumar AjayKumar.Dwivedi@dresdner-bank.com
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:48:29 -0000


This is NOT the correct behaviour.

Tried it with Visual Studio .NET Beta 2
Output::
In try
In catch
In finally
Press any key to continue

If it were otherwise, it would have defeated the purpose of Finally.

Regards,
Ajay

#! If anything can go wrong, FIX it. (To hell with Murphy)
Dwivedi, Ajay kumar 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeroen Frijters [mailto:mono@jeroen.nu]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 4:52 PM
> To: mortenolsen@mail.com; mono-list@ximian.com
> Subject: RE: [Mono-list] exception semantics
> 
> 
> This is the correct behaviour, since you explicitly return from the
> catch block.
> 
> Regards,
> Jeroen
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mono-list-admin@ximian.com 
> > [mailto:mono-list-admin@ximian.com] On Behalf Of Morten 
> Sylvest Olsen
> > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 21:49
> > To: mono-list@ximian.com
> > Subject: [Mono-list] exception semantics
> > 
> > 
> > Hi..
> > 
> > Whats the current state of the interpreter?
> > 
> > I tried to run the following code (compiled with ms csc.exe):
> > 
> > ...
> > try {
> > 	Console.WriteLine("In try");
> > 	throw new Exception();
> > 	//return(1);
> > }
> > catch (Exception e) {
> > 	Console.WriteLine("In catch");
> > 	return(2);
> > }
> > finally {
> > 	Console.WriteLine("In finally");
> > }
> > 
> > and got:
> > 
> > In try
> > In catch
> > 
> > No execution of the finally block happens.
> > 
> > Whats the concensus on the exception semantics? I was 
> > discussed back in
> > August, but I couldn't glean any conclusion whether a 
> finally block is
> > supposed to be executed before or after the exception handler.
> > 
> > - Morten
> > 
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