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From: "Sean Middleditch" <sean DOT middleditch AT iname DOT com>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 16 DOT 19990411171513 DOT 2c4fdadc AT pop DOT detroit DOT crosswinds DOT net>
Subject: Re: Undocumented Keyword...
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 21:08:29 -0400
Organization: AwesomePlay Productions
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

try is part of C exception handling... I never use it myself, but I've seen
it covered intesively in a book Jamsa's C/C++ Programmer's Bible.
Basically, try initiates an excpetion handler, and some other code
(function, child programs, etc.) can call a throw statement (and exception),
and the exception is caught by the the catch statement in the try block:

 try {
    printf ( "Some text\n" );
    throw;
    printf ( "You'll never see this text\n" );
 } catch {
    printf ( "Exception caught\n" );
 }

 It has many various uses, but I've never used them for anything that I
couldn't write much more specific code for... the only REALLY good use I can
think of is catching excpeption in child programs.

Sean Middleditch
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AwesomePlay Productions
http://members.xoom.com/aweplay
aweplay AT iname DOT com

----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas J. Hruska <shinelight AT detroit DOT crosswinds DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 1999 5:15 PM
Subject: Undocumented Keyword...


> As I was writing a program, I accidentally came across the following
keyword:
>
> try
>
> I checked to see if there was help available on this keyword in both
> RHIDE's docs and also to see if Borland Turbo C/C++ v3.1 had the same
> keyword.  Both IDEs have the same keyword, but neither have documentation
> on it.  I searched my C/C++ books for such a keyword and I can't find
> anything.
>
> Is this just a bug?  If not, what does 'try' do?  I can't figure this out.
> I will check one other IDE tomorrow (Monday) to see if the same thing
> happens in a later version of Borland C/C++ (4.5, I think).
>
>
>         Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight AT detroit DOT crosswinds DOT net
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>