Boost.ScopeExit based on D's scope(exit)

[Georg Wrede]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu, el  2 de marzo a las 10:42 me escribiste:
>>> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>>>> Boost 1.38.0 includes a new library ScopeExit:
>>>> http://www.boost.org/users/news/version_1_38_0
>>>> This library is based on D's scope(exit) according to the 
>>>> documentation,
>>>> see at the end of the link:
>>>> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/libs/scope_exit/doc/html/scope_exit/alternatives.html 
>>>>
>>> Cool. I confess I'm mildly miffed. In the "Acknowledge" section (sic) 
>>> yours truly is being acknowledged "for pointing me to scope(exit) 
>>> construct of the D  programming language." In the Alternatives 
>>> section there's an unatrributed link to the ScopeGuard article. My 
>>> understanding of ScopeExit looks much more inspired and derivative 
>>> from ScopeGuard than a distinct artifact, something that goes 
>>> entirely unacknowledged.
>>>
>>> For some reason ScopeGuard and scope(exit) consistently escapes 
>>> proper acknowledgments. Petru Marginean and I introduced the concept 
>>> in C++ and argued for its usefulness. I invented the gorram 
>>> scope(exit) statement for D, and Walter almost forgot to acknowledge 
>>> me. And now this. What are you going to do...
>>
>> Is there any particular reason why you are so concerned about credits? 
>> I'm not saying they don't matter, but you seem to take it too hard.
> 
> I'm, if anything, at the very low end of credit-beggars foodchain. You 
> wouldn't believe if I told you about some (rather notorious within the 
> community) people I know that ought to be a tad more modest :o). I just 
> have a dim view of not giving credit. Proper credit is extremely easy to 
> give, costs nothing, and is the right thing to do. The author of 
> ScopeExit clearly knew everything of ScopeGuard since he linked to it, 
> but did not quite acknowledge the relationship of his work to 
> ScopeGuard, which should be done even assuming he developed ScopeExit 
> entirely in isolation. That's just... you don't do that.

I'm at the low end too. For example, rdmd is based on my original idea. 
But by not begging around for acknowledgements, I bet nobody at all 
knows it anymore.

Many years ago I sent a private mail to Walter with the idea, six months 
later I started advocating it vigorously on this NG, later I mailed a 
shell script to him that does what rdmd does now.

The whole concept is mine, right down to shebangs in D source files and 
caching binaries.

Heh, so incidentally, there might be some point in activating myself in 
that area. Also outside of the D community.... :-(

The biggest lie I've ever heard is "the meek shall inherit the earth".