Walter: Before you go and implement the new RAII syntax..

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Wed Sep 6 21:07:15 PDT 2006


Derek Parnell wrote:
> BTW, I'm not wedded to 'local' but something, ... anything, that explicitly
> informs the reader that the object will be destroyed when it goes out of
> scope is needed. Leaving it out is not a good user interface.

Why? It's implicit in C style programming languages that things 
disappear when they go out of scope. It's the original meaning of 'auto' 
in C and C++, it's also the default behavior.



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