Karl Bochert wrote:
>>
>>   try { <some statement(s) }
>>   catch (<errorclass>) { <do something about it> }
>>   finally { <always run> };
>>
> 
> How does that differ from:
> 
>     try { <some statement(s) }
>     catch (<errorclass>) { <do something about it> }
>     <always run>};

Even if an exception is thrown, and isn't caught in this scope, the finally block will execute while the stack is being unwound.

ie

try {
   throw new Exception("This won't be caught here.");
} catch (IOError error) {
   we can't catch Exception() here, only IOError
} finally {
   // clean up the file, whether or not an error occurred
   myFile.close();
}

 -- andy