Boost.ScopeExit based on D's scope(exit)

Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 11:28:06 PST 2009


On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
> I'm, if anything, at the very low end of credit-beggars foodchain. You
> wouldn't believe if I told you about some (rather notorious within the
> community) people I know that ought to be a tad more modest :o). I just have
> a dim view of not giving credit. Proper credit is extremely easy to give,
> costs nothing, and is the right thing to do. The author of ScopeExit clearly
> knew everything of ScopeGuard since he linked to it, but did not quite
> acknowledge the relationship of his work to ScopeGuard, which should be done
> even assuming he developed ScopeExit entirely in isolation. That's just...
> you don't do that.

For what it's worth, the D docs page that he links to doesn't mention
your name at all.  I mean, I suppose Walter could give credit for each
feature but that seems a bit out of place in a formal spec.

Only in http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/exception-safe.html are you
actually mentioned, and even there it doesn't really credit you as the
inventor of the idea, just that you argued for it.


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