Have to disagree. Always found END block behaviour completely intuitive. Indeed, it never occurred to be that anybody would want it to work in any other way.

I don't often have multiple END blocks, but when I do I want them to run LIFO. Either because later blocks need the context that earlier blocks clean up, or because early blocks need some state that is only known to later blocks.

Yes, you can come up with situations where they don't do what you want - but I would argue that would be because you're trying to use them for the wrong sort of thing ;-)

In reply to Re^2: Re: Execution order of END/CHECK vs BEGIN/INIT by adrianh
in thread Execution order of END/CHECK vs BEGIN/INIT by belden

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