The issue of catching Errors came up in D.learn today, and I need some clarification. It has been my understanding that anything which is thrown which is not derived from Exception skips all destructors, scope statements, and finally blocks, meaning that it's generally unsafe to catch them, because your program is potentially in an invalid state. However, it was brought to my attention that the compiler does not currently follow this behavior - all 3 of those get run for Errors at present. So, the question is whether I'm just completely misunderstanding something or whether something has changed.
Is it guaranteed that all thrown Throwables will result in all destructors, scope statements (exit and failure at least), and finally blocks that they pass being executed? Or is it only guaranteed for Exception and its derived types and just so happens to work for other exception types right now? I've been completely certain that such was _not_ guaranteed unless the exception type is Exception or derived from Exception, but I can't find any support for that searching the docs or newsgroup save for what I've said about it myself. So, I'd like official clarification on the matter. - Jonathan M Davs _______________________________________________ dmd-internals mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals
