Curt, Why do you say you aren't going to execute the return statement? As I read the code, the "return author" statement WILL execute after the finally block completes.
The only way I can see that the return statement wouldn't get executed is if you had a catch block, and rethrew the exception (but that does not appear to be what you are doing.) If you do intend to do that, then you probably would want to put the return statement inside of the Try block. HTH Larry -----Original Message----- From: Curtis Koppang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 8:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Use of unassigned local variable I guess it's too much to ask for the compiler to figure this out. Here is what I mean. If I get an exception on a line in the try block, the only code I am executing is the code in the finally block. I am not going to execute the return, so why do I care if it has a valid value or not. Later, curt You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
