Why aren't variables declared in “try” in scope in “catch” or “finally”?

Question

In C# and in Java (and possibly other languages as well), variables declared in a \"try\" block are not in scope in the corresponding \"catch\" or \"finally\" blocks. For e

Answer 1

The simple answer is that C and most of the languages that have inherited its syntax are block scoped. That means that if a variable is defined in one block, i.e., inside { }, that is its scope.

The exception, by the way, is JavaScript, which has a similar syntax, but is function scoped. In JavaScript, a variable declared in a try block is in scope in the catch block, and everywhere else in its containing function.