Is finally good for anything?

Question

Perhaps I'm missing something, but as I perceive it, the "finally" clause of a try/catch block has no purpose?
In every case I can imagine, it could be removed entirely, the code encapsulated within instead pasted after the block, with no change in the actual code execution.
What am I missing?

Answer 1

I don't really understand. I'll try an example.
try
{ someCode();
catch ( someException e )
{ someOtherCode();
finally
{ someFinalCode();
someOtherFinalCode();My assertion is : in all cases where someFinalCode()
executes, someOtherFinalCode() also executes.
Is there any case where this is not true?
Got tired of this argument a long time ago... but think of the example of when it:
a) throws an exception which you are not catching (your method can throw the exception back to its caller instead of handling it there, or throws an unchecked exception)
b) has a return statement inside the finally block which gets executed