return from finally clause

[David Bolen]

"Jürgen Hermann" <jh at web.de> writes:

> That means that if you (accidently?) return within a finally clause, you
> effectively eat the exception. This should be documented, or fixed.

It is documented - see section 7.4 in the language reference
(penultimate paragraph in my 1.5.2 version).  It's true if the finally
statement raises another execution or uses return, break or continue,
and is apparently due to the fact that the finally statement doesn't
have access to the exception information while executing.

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