From -6101289159474588271 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,972722ed514d508a X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-30 13:45:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Francis Glassborow Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: try block as main block of a function Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:44:26 GMT Organization: Southfield Microcomputer SS Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <+5FKSWA1iaZ7Ew4q@ntlworld.com> References: <3b6061b5.1188820@news.terra.es> <9jr8bd$19vqd$1@ID-49767.news.dfncis.de> <9k34ms$2akk5$1@ID-49767.news.dfncis.de> Reply-To: Francis Glassborow X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 996525876 mail2news:10499 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.00 U Lines: 25 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:6826 In article <9k34ms$2akk5$1@ID-49767.news.dfncis.de>, Anthony Williams writes >8.4p16 says: >"The exception being handled is rethrown if control reaches the end of a >handler of the function-try-block of a constructor or destructor. Otherwise, >a function returns when control reaches the end of a handler for the >function-try-block (6.6.3). Flowing off the end of a function-try-block is >equivalent to a return with no value; this results in undefined behavior in >a value-returning function (6.6.3)." You are right. But that seems adequate for not using them except for ctors (only fools let exception escape from dtors :) Francis Glassborow ACCU 64 Southfield Rd Oxford OX4 1PA +44(0)1865 246490 All opinions are mine and do not represent those of any organisation --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ]