Obviously I mean if you want to use the reference after the try-catch.

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 1:32 PM sasho648 <sasho648_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Except unlike if statement the declaration will continue its life time
> after the try-catch.
>
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 1:31 PM sasho648 <sasho648_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> So in my experience the biggest issue I had with using try-catch is for
>> example when I try to construct a reference within try-catch - in order to
>> capture only the exception that could occur there:
>>
>> try {
>> auto &ref = func();
>> }
>> catch(...) {
>> }
>>
>> Problem here is:
>>
>> You either have to use reference wrapper or something like that if you
>> want to handle only the exception that could potentially be thrown by func.
>> And still it would be ugly.
>>
>> What I'm proposing is something similar as in Java:
>>
>>
>> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/tryResourceClose.html
>>
>> Where you could do:
>>
>> try (auto &ref = func()) {
>> } catch(...) {
>> }
>>
>> Similar way as in if statement and such.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> (And also additionally I'm sure someone has proposed this so yeah - you
>> can just send me the reference then)
>>
>>