Exception programming difficult

[Paulo Pinto]

On Monday, 13 August 2012 at 15:32:45 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> Back to Java: what is I find strange is the lack of sensible 
> tools to do transactional or exception safe code within the 
> language. No RAII objects or just at least any kludge to 
> reliably register cleanup/rollback, only "good" old try/finally.

Since Java 7, you have the same tools Haskell, Scheme, Lisp, C# 
and Python already offer for such cases.

For example:


try (BufferedReader br =
                    new BufferedReader(new FileReader(path))) {
         return br.readLine();
}

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Paulo