Questions tagged [finally]
The finally block always executes after a try block, regardless of how the control exits the block.
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Finally block when no exceptions thrown
I'm doing some cleanup operations that could throw an exception, and I want to implement the logic of a finally block, but only if no exceptions are thrown:
The initial implementation is this:
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Event subscription in finally clause
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My program communicates with a device that is usually asynchronous, but can sometimes behave synchronously. I have an event handler that I use for receiving the data asynchronously, then I ...
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How to get around non-initialized objects in the `finally` block?
I like using final variables whenever possible. Often those variables have to be closed afterwards. Note that I'm currently working on Java 6 so there is not closeable interface, but the same applies ...
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What is the conceptual difference between finally and a destructor?
First, I am well aware of Why is there no 'finally' construct in C++? but a lengthy-growing comment discussion on another question seems to warrant a separate question.
Apart from the issue ...
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Which programming language first came up with the finally block?
Which programming language first came up with the finally block?
I ask purely out of curiosity.
It is a very useful piece of syntactic sugar, and whoever first created it surely has a very ...
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