raii

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 02/28/2010 02:34 PM, sybrandy wrote:
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> I have two questions for you:
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> 1) Are class destructors not good enough? If so, why?

They might be good enough, I don't know. I thought they wouldn't be 
guaranteed to be called on scope exit, though.

>
> 2) Have you looked into static destructors? I created a logging library
> and that worked perfect for me to ensure that if I killed the program
> via Ctrl-C, it would flush the output buffer and close the file handle.

I'm not really looking at unexpected terminations

>
> Personally, I really like the use of "scope" vs. RAII. Keeping the code
> to clean up a file handle or the like right by where it's declared seems
> very sensible to me.

I like scope too. But it's still something the user has to remember.

>
> Casey