[fpc-pascal] Re: Fpc Access Violation if AppConfigDir doesn't exist.

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Lukasz Sokol wrote:

> To developers:
> How would a generalized/packed construct like
> 
> try
> [code block]
> finally
> [code block]
> except
> [code block]
> end;
> 
> (in other words: a try-*-end construct where * can be 'finally', or 'except', or BOTH.)
> 
> fit into Pascal philosophy?
> Advantages is mainly: 
> - one less indent level ('oh, I need try-except around all THAT, bugger.') to care about;
>   (yeah, even with all the good tools to manage the code, it stings, that the two 
>    have to be separately declared and one needs to remember that...)

I think this complicates things unduly. As it is case-else and then-else 
are about the only places where there is this sort of composite block, 
and finally-except-end is even uglier since parts of all three blocks 
may be executed.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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