Yes, you're right Shantanu. apache commons io and spring framework, to name 2 things I know for sure, are doing what you say: they swallow any exception that could be thrown within the finally block, for the reasons you mention.
Of course, with-open allowing to do several binding, the try/swallow-catch would have to be repeated for each nesting, IMHO. Cheers, -- Laurent 2011/1/24 Shantanu Kumar <kumar.shant...@gmail.com>: > > > On Jan 25, 2:07 am, dysinger <t...@dysinger.net> wrote: >> (try (with-open [x y] ... ) >> (catch Exception)) ;; <- catches any exception from with-open macro >> >> I don't think you are correct. > > Maybe this is subjective, but I am rarely interested in knowing what > exception does .close() throw - I would like it ignored. Let me > explain. Catching 'Exception' over with-open does not solve things, > for example: > 1. If the try block returns a value, and .close() raises an > IOException - that breaks my expectation because I am interested in > the try block, not .close(). > 2. If the try block raises exception 'A' and .close() raises exception > B - that changes semantics for me because (a) I might have, for > example, setup transaction-strategy based on the types of exception > thrown, (b) the exception 'A' is lost and I never come to know about > it. > > Regards, > Shantanu > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
