Re: RecyclerMM, Goto Label usage

From: Arthur Hoornweg (arthur.hoornweg_at_wanadoo.nl.net)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:09:25 +0200

Eric Grange wrote:

> It's there for two reasons: to make the compiled code more compact,
> and more importanly, to have only one exit point, one place where
> the cleanup occurs

Then why not use the following, it is "cleaner":

Procedure dosomething;
begin
TRY

...

   place your code here. Any "Exit" will jump to the
   "finally" block rather than exiting the procedure
   and thus perform a nice cleanup.

...

Finally
   cleanup here
end;
end;//proc 

-- 
Arthur Hoornweg
(please remove the ".net" from my e-mail address)

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