[antlr-interest] "finally" blocks

[Terence Parr]

On Jan 17, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Paul J. Lucas wrote:
>>> 	In using ANTLR with Java, it would be nice to be able to 
>>> specify	"finally" blocks, e.g.:
>
>> Good idea Paul.  Is there a decent equiv in all potential targets?
>
> 	I don't know about all targets, but C++ doesn't need "finally"
> 	because C++ has destructors.  The only reason Java needs
> 	"finally" is because it doesn't have destructors.

Yeah, I wonder about C target.  I'd hate to have something that could 
only be done in a few targets.

Ter
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