Timeline for Why use try … finally without a catch clause?

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Mar 4, 2016 at 16:32	comment	added	Wtrmute		You can, but if `l.lock()` fails, the `finally` block will still run if `l.lock()` is inside the `try` block. If you do it like gnat suggests, the `finally` block will only run when we know that the lock was acquired.
Jun 25, 2015 at 18:58	comment	added	gnat		technically, you can. I didn't put it there because semantically, it makes less sense. `try` in this snippet is intended to wrap resource access, why polluting it with something unrelated to that
Jun 25, 2015 at 18:55	comment	added	RMachnik		Can I put `l.lock()` inside try? `try{ l.lock(); }finally{l.unlock();}`
Feb 15, 2012 at 15:59	history	answered	gnat	CC BY-SA 3.0