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Subject: Re: try command error codes, where documented?
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On 8/20/2024 10:08 PM, clt.to.davebr@dfgh.net wrote:

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> I'm kind of amazed it works too, but it is very nice that it does. My most common use for try {...} finally {...} is to close a file regardless of any errors after reading and maybe processing the contents inside the try script.
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> daveb
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Well, I *finally* decided to read sections 11.2-3 in Ashok's great Tcl book and the text and examples there has cleared up everything for me.

That explains how the try command can execute the finally clause *after* the execution of the return command. It's because try gets to do whatever it wants with the return code of 2 that the return command itself returns.

-e