I've been thinking about exceptions a bit and it occurred to me that the catch and finally clauses are orthogonal. I mean code in a catch clause runs conditional on a exception being thrown and code in a finally clause runs unconditional on whether there was an exception or not.
So i think using try only through something like the following macros would make the intend of ones code more explicit. (defmacro simple-catch [maythrow & clauses] `(try ~maythrow ~@(map #(cons 'catch %) clauses))) (defmacro simple-finally [maythrow & body] `(try ~maythrow (finally ~@body))) -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.