According to the linked article, the second one will not run do_something_finall() since it is after the return statement. The second one however will... Note,

According to the linked article, the second one will not run do_something_finall() since it is after the return statement. The second one however will... Note, this does seem to be the case for javascript: With finally http://jsfiddle.net/J5Cjt/ http://jsfiddle.net/J5Cjt/ Without finally http://jsfiddle.net/C2vg7/ http://jsfiddle.net/C2vg7/