Question about RAII.

[Hasan Aljudy]

Peter C. Chapin wrote:
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> In the example above it looks like both object1 and object2 are 
> destroyed and thus the returned reference is invalid. However, if I 
> remove 'auto' from the local declarations than object1 and object2 don't 
> get destroyed until garbage collection time... which is too late. It 
> looks like I'm left with explicitly deleting the object that I don't 
> return, but this is manual resource management and not RAII.
> 
> Peter

I always had the impression that RAII indeed *is* manual resource 
management.