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

When you have a try catch, you should at the most part know that errors that it might throw. Theese Exception classes normaly tell everything you need about the exception. If not, you should make you're own exception classes and pass that information along. That way, you will never need to get the variables from inside the try block, because the Exception is self explainatory. So if you need to do this alot, think about you're design, and try to think if there is some other way, that you can either predict exceptions comming, or use the information comming from the exceptions, and then maybe rethrow your own exception with more information.