[Gambas-user] Finally/Catch and Return: How is that meant to be used?

[Gianluigi]

Il 14/09/23 16:03, Martin Fischer ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> I think I don't understand the approach to error handling gambas has 
> chosen.
>
> Let's take a simple, very common problem: a function that shall return
> the id (int) of something. To get this id, a looooong and very
> complicated sequence of steps have to be taken. This involves the
> allocation of resources that have to be cleaned up in any case. All
> kinds of errors could happen on the way (errors might get risen).
>
> Here is pseudocode for this:
>
> -----------------------
> Public Function getComplicatedId() As Integer
>     Dim result As Integer
>
>     ' do some very complicated stuff
>     ' resources are allocated on the way. E.g. heap Alloc
>
>     Return result
>
> Finally
>     ' clean up resources here
> Catch
>     ' do some logging here
>     Error.Raise("Can't handle this!")
> End
> -----------------------
>
> The first problem with this code is that the "Return result" causes the
> Finally block to be skipped.
>
> Moving the "Return result" as last statement into the Finally block does
> work but prevents the Catch block to be executed in case of an error. 
> Bad.
>
> I'm sure that there is a way to handle cleanup and errors in a clean
> manner (I mean: without Gotos and Labels). I just can't see how to do it
> with Return, Finally and Catch...
>
> Does anyone have an explanation or example or reference to a
> sample/documentation for this problem?
>
> Thanks
>
> __________________________________
> Martin Fischer
>
>
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I think (but I'm not sure) that this answer your question:

http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/finally?nl

Regards

Gianluigi