Negative

[Sean Kelly]

Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> This suggests to me that RAII and try-finally are the wrong paradigms for 
> doing transaction programming. I've attended Scott Meyer's insightful 
> lecture on doing transaction programming in C++. There is no hope for it to 
> be reliably done by anyone but experts.

This is actually my concern about C++ in general.  The language is 
becoming so complicated--including the recommended solutions to common 
problems--that I wonder if any but experts will be able to reliably 
write correct code.  And in my personal experience, C++ experts are few 
and far between.


Sean