Re: try..catch for Lua 5.2?

[Dušan Majkić <dmajkic@...>]

>> Since there is no "begin" in lua, I'll wote for leaving out "try".
>
> What do you mean by "begin"? If you want an explicit lexical scope,
> you can always use do...end.

There is no reason to start a block with "try" in lua.

function luafunc()
  local l
  livelongandprosper()
catch E
  print E.message
end

and if you want to do exception handlig on block

function luafunc()
  local l

  do
     livelongandprosper()
  catch E
     print E.message
  end

  here_even_if_things_went_wrong()
end