[fpc-pascal] Re: how to simplify try try except end finally end?

[Sven Barth]

Am 27.12.2013 11:22 schrieb "Mark Morgan Lloyd" <
markMLl.fpc-pascal at telemetry.co.uk>:
>
> Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>>
>> On 27/12/2013 10:17, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
>>>
>>> On 26/12/13 12:13, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 26/12/2013 13:09, Dennis Poon wrote:
>>>> Search the archives for proposals for syntax like this that didn't lead
>>>> to anything.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It did lead exactly to Sven
>>
>>
>> Ah yes, you're right that *is* progress :)
>>
>> PS: I like it, too - used to it in .Net, but not too bothered by having
>> to work around it.
>
>
> For what it's worth, I'm ambivalent. Not because I feel that try stacks
couldn't or shouldn't be simplified, but because I feel that whoever
overloaded  try  for two different structures should be shot.

AFAIK most other languages that support a finally also use try for both. So
I would say that Borland just went with the flow...

Regards,
Sven
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