On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Shantanu Kumar <kumar.shant...@gmail.com>wrote:
I can't see the value in catching Throwable and then re-throwing it; > idiomatically Throwable is rarely caught. Looking at code example, the > following two snippets below are just the same: > > (try > (.close resource) > (catch Throwable t > (when (instance? Error t) > (throw t)))) > > (try > (.close resource) > (catch Exception e)) > (I don't think we want to discard the exception from close - Ken's code still throws it if the body didn't throw an exception.) > Besides, looking at the Java spec > http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Error.html Clojure isn't Java though. Bytecode corresponding to Java source code for a try/finally block effectively catches Throwable via an 'any' entry in the exception table, and then rethrows it. Clojure should do something similar or better. See: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jvms/second_edition/html/Compiling.doc.html#13789 (although compilers generally inline the finally block nowadays, rather than using the slower jsr instruction). -- Dave -- 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
