A Perspective on D from game industry

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/16/2014 2:23 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:18:26AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> [...]
>> C++'s lack of finally didn't do any favors for exception handling's
>> popularity, either. (Has "finally" finally been added?)
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7779652/try-catch-finally-construct-is-it-in-c11
>
> Apparently, C++ *still* doesn't have finally, preferring RAII instead.
> Yet another nail in the too-little-too-late coffin that is C++11.
>

Ahh, ouch.

Some years back, I was very surprised when I came across Brian Hook's 
old "Book of Hook" article denouncing exceptions as a bad approach to 
error handling. Then I realized C++ didn't have "finally". All of a 
sudden his perspective made a lot more sense. :)

But wait...Hasn't Andrei created library-based scope guards for C++? (Or 
am I remembering something wrong?) How would that possible without 
"finally"?