Ideas regarding flow control and loops

[Charles D Hixson]

Marco Aurélio wrote:
> Hello! I've been following the development of the D programming language for some time (around 1 year), and I have to say it keeps looking better.
> ...
> 2 - for .. finally, while .. finally:
> 
> This would allow having something like:
> 
> while(someCondition)
> {
>     DoSomething();
> } finally {
>     DoOtherThing();
> }
> 
> The "finally" block would be called at the end of the repetition, only if no "break" was used. This may not seem useful at first, but I think can reduce the number of flags needed to implement various algorithms, making the code faster and more elegant. I'm not sure if this is already possible with scope guards.
> 
> That's it.. What do you think?

No.  Finally should be the label on a block of code that will 
be executed *WHATEVER* happens in the preceding loop, 
including the raising of an exception.