If change 'finally' to 'finally1' in both places, it compiles and runs.
Why does 'finally' break compilation?
Is this a BUG or a FEATURE?

From: Programming in D book, page 511.

Error:

c:\dev\D\71 - 80\c76_1c_c_style_code_not_needed_in_D\source\app.d(12): Error: identifier expected following `goto`
        goto finally;
             ^
c:\dev\D\71 - 80\c76_1c_c_style_code_not_needed_in_D\source\app.d(12): Error: found `finally` when expecting `;` following `goto` statement
        goto finally;
             ^
c:\dev\D\71 - 80\c76_1c_c_style_code_not_needed_in_D\source\app.d(17): Error: found `finally` instead of statement
    finally:
    ^

source/app.d

import std.stdio;

void main() {
	writeln("foo() is: ", foo());
}

// --- C code --
int foo() {
	int error = 42;

	if (error) {
		goto finally;
	}

	error = 86;

	finally:
		 // ... cleanup operations ...
		return error;
}

On Tuesday, 19 August 2025 at 20:38:52 UTC, Brother Bill wrote:

its a try-catch keyword

On Tuesday, 19 August 2025 at 20:40:47 UTC, monkyyy wrote:

That's it! It's works exactly like C# too. Same 'finally' keyword.