RAII

[Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 23 February 2017 at 09:57:09 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> Arun Chandrasekaran wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to write an RAII wrapper on Linux.
>>
>> I understand struct in D doesn't have default constructor (for 
>> .init reasons).
>> I don't want to use `scope`.
>>
>> Is there an elegant way to achieve this in D?
> why not static method or free function that returns struct? due 
> to NRVO[0] it won't even be copied.
>
>  auto lock = MyWrapper();
>
> `MyWrapper()` may return voldemort type, so user won't create 
> your struct accidentally.
>
>
> [0] https://dlang.org/glossary.html#nrvo

Thanks for your help. NRVO looks interesting. However this may 
not be RAII after all. Or may be too much of C++ has spoiled me. 
I am not familiar enough with D to appreciate/question the 
language design choice. I'll accept this and move forward and see 
how my code evolves. Nevertheless, I'm still learning something 
new. :)