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

As has been pointed out by other users, the curly braces define scope in pretty much every C style language that I know of.

If it's a simple variable, then why do you care how long it will be in scope? It's not that big a deal.

in C#, if it is a complex variable, you will want to implement IDisposable. You can then either use try/catch/finally and call obj.Dispose() in the finally block. Or you can use the using keyword, which will automatically call the Dispose at the end of the code section.