scope block do not handle failure, but try-catch does

[Michael via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 11 December 2014 at 20:40:40 UTC, Suliman wrote:
> string dbname = config.getKey("dbname1");
> scope(failure) writeln("look like dbname is missing");
>
> I am using dini and trying to throw exception if value can't be 
> extract from config. If I am wrap it's in try-сефср block it's 
> work or. But in this situation scope block do not execute and I 
> see only stack tracing error on console.
>
> Why? What's wrong. By idea if block failure scope should execute

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I suspect you have to declare the 
scope(failure) before you call the code that might execute it.

e.g.

scope(failure) writeln("Looks like the dbname is missing");
string dbname = config.getKey("dbname1");