Re: English language basis for "throw"

[email protected] (Graham Barr) Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:27:21 +0100
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.errors
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:11:32AM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >>>>> "TO" == Tony Olekshy <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> TO> Consider "finally" vs. "always".  Always?  Even if force majeur?
> TO> Finally simply means, "as the final act of the unwind processing".
> 
> Am I missing something. I thought that the finally clause is executed
> under normal and exceptional conditions. I.e. there is no way to exit
> the context of the try block without going through the finally.

That was my understanding too.

Graham.