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From: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
To: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael Lovett" <mlovett@morpace.com>, <gcc@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GCC Feature question
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 12:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wvlvg4m9idt.fsf@prospero.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m37kh693un.fsf@frogsleap.quesejoda.com> (Aldy Hernandez's message of "27 Sep 2002 20:42:56 -0700")

On 27 Sep 2002 20:42:56 -0700, Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com> wrote:

>  > We are porting apps to UNIX from Windows but so far can't find a
>  > compiler with try/finally. It is such a useful, convenient construct
>  > it is hard to imagine structured programming without it.
>
> C or C++?  With C++ you can emulate it with constructors, albeit ugly.

It's not *that* ugly.  For C++ using a destructor encourages you to write
reusable finalization code.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-04 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-27 22:15 Michael Lovett
2002-09-27 22:45 ` Aldy Hernandez
2002-10-04 12:26   ` Jason Merrill [this message]
2002-09-28  0:20 ` Tim Prince
2002-09-28 10:00   ` Aldy Hernandez
2002-10-04 12:52 Michael Lovett
     [not found] <sd9dae8d.087@farm_groupwise1_srv.morpace-i.com>
2002-10-04 15:20 ` Jason Merrill

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