Ok use-case I was thinking is actually:

int f() {

try (auto &ref = func()) {
} catch(...) {
return -1;
}

// use ref here
}

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 1:47 PM Giuseppe D'Angelo via Std-Proposals <
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> Il 22/11/23 12:31, sasho648 via Std-Proposals ha scritto:
> >
> > 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.
>
> But what should `ref` refer to if `func()` throws?
>
> Thank you,
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