DMD 0.148 - scope guard

[Hasan Aljudy]

Walter Bright wrote:
> "John Reimer" <terminal.node at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:dtrg0e$c9k$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> 
>>Nice feature, but rather ugly to look at; although, I'm not sure how 
>>something like that could be made to look pretty.
> 
> 
> I think it's ugly, too, but I just couldn't come up with anything 
> significantly better.
> 
> 
>>Nonetheless the scope guard looks like something I should read up on.
>>
>>Thanks for another good release.
> 
> 
> You're welcome. 
> 
> 

Why not just reuse "finally"?

void func()
{
     init_some_reource();
     foo(); // foo throws an exception
     //func doesn't catch the exception
     //but it has a finally clause

     finally  //aka on scope exit, whether success or fail
     {
         release_the_resource();
     }
}