"Code Sandwiches"

[dsimcha]

== Quote from bearophile (bearophileHUGS at lycos.com)'s article
> One of the things the paper says about D scope guards is: "Scope guards do not
provide encapsulation".

(Rolls eyes.)  I feel like this is a "standard" criticism of language features
that's code for "I don't like this feature".  IIRC they said the same thing about
delegates in Java.  Without even reading the paper, there are two reasons why this
is an idiotic thing to say:

1.  D also provides struct destructors, which are a more encapsulated way of
accomplishing the same thing.  Scope guards are intended for one-off use cases
where declaring a type, etc. is just extra overhead and accomplishes nothing.

2.  Encapsulation is only a means, not an end in itself.  Sometimes people lose
sight of this.  The end goal is to write correct, efficient, readable,
maintainable programs.  If increasing encapsulation hurts these goals instead of
helping them (as excessive encapsulation as practiced by obsessive-compulsive
people does), then it's a Bad Thing.