[Semi OT] Language for Game Development talk

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 09:24:19 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 08:59:04 UTC, po wrote:
>>> - RAII makes most sense if you have exceptions.
>>  RAII is orthogonal to exceptions, so his claim is nonsense.
>
> Just a note: this isn't really true. RAII was initially used to 
> deal with exceptions.

This is completely not true, we were using RAII in C++ before any 
compiler had real support for exceptions.

In the 90's exceptions were still being discussed at ANSI/ISO 
with very few compiler offering support for them. And those that 
did, suffered from implementation bugs.

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Paulo