July 18, 2009
3:14 p.m.
Michael Foord <fuzzyman@gmail.com> wrote:
2009/7/18 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org>
That would really piss off anybody who deliberately put a return in a finally block, I think.
I think the current behavior (swallowing an exception that most people would expect to be re-raised) surprises and pisses people off. Guido has already made a pronouncement so not much point continuing this discussion.
But maybe we can convince BDFL that it should be -- not SyntaxError but -- RuntimeError? *j