From: Nit Khair <sentinel.2001@...>
Date: 2008-10-02T21:48:49+09:00
Subject: Re: "ensure" hiding actual error

Dave Thomas wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2008, at 7:39 AM, Nit Khair wrote:
> 
>> I spent many years in Java where the style was:
>>
>> try {
>>   resource = init_resource
>> } catch (exception) {}
>> finally {
>>   if resource != null { resource.close }
>> }
> 
> This is common in Java, but it is incorrect.
> 
> What happens if init_resource() throws an exception?
> 
> 
> Dave

Oops I forgot to mention that in finally {} one would check for resource 
not being nil. Corrected above.
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