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

[Georg Wrede]

Gregor Richards wrote:
> I hate to dredge up an old post, but I was just thinking about this and 
> thought I'd point out one thing to anyone listening:
> 
> RAII stands for Resource Allocation Is Initialization.  You can do RAII 
> without automatically-deleted classes, it's just difficult.  For this 
> reason, a keyword 'raii' would be inappropriate - what's being described 
> is NOT RAII, it's just an incidental change that makes RAII more useful. 
>  RDID (Resource Deallocation Is Destruction) is closer to what's being 
> described, but still not spot-on: that has to do with the class 
> definition, not the actual use of the class.  What's being described is 
> simply an object associated with a scope.  In short: the changes 
> described have nothing to do with RAII, they just make it more useful, 
> so having a keyword 'raii' is nonsense.
> 
> If I see a keyword 'raii' meaning anything like this at any point in the 
> future, I'll be crying myself to sleep that night :P

If you get sleepless you might want to search the D newsgroup archives 
here on RAII. I promise you you'll be both crying and laughing the rest 
of the night.

What got beaten to death were: the meaning of the acronym, various 
suggestions to replace it, the entire subject, the guy who's originally 
introduced the acronym, and half of the participants' keyboards. ;-)

To comfort: you're not alone with your feeling.