217591 - finally block in JavaScript is not executed if try block is empty

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 214945

(Rhino Graveyard :: Core, defect)

Description

[Merten Schumann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: 

the following javascript

try
{
}
finally
{
 System.out.println("finally I'm done")
}

doesn't print any output
same happens if there's only a comment in try block
works if there's a real expression to be executed in try block

really a minor problem but often use such code snippets as a startup before I
fill in my code ...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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I don't know if this is a parser/code generator problem or if this is a feature
in JavaScript.

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214945 ***

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Marking Verified Duplicate.

Merten: thank you for this report. This bug was fixed a few days ago
(2003-08-04), and should no longer be affecting the most recent source.

Please report back if this is not the case; thanks -

Comment 3

[Merten Schumann]

I'm sorry, when I searched for already know bugs I've probably only searched for
new or open bugs, so I haven't found 214945.

I tried it with the latest built, you're right, the bug is fixed! :)

Next time I'll use bugzilla the right way.

Comment 4

[Igor Bukanov]

Trageting as resolved against 1.5R5