[Semi OT] Language for Game Development talk

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On Saturday, 27 September 2014 at 10:01:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 21:19:29 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> I would. The whole point of destructors is to automatically 
>> clean up resources when the object goes away, which was 
>> (later) dubbed RAII.
>
> Yeah, but RAII takes it to the extreme where you create dummy 
> classes that only consist of constructors/destructors so that 
> the stack unwinding does all cleanup/closing/freeing without 
> any try/catch.
>

This is not necessary in D as we have scope statements.

> Before C++ templates that looked verbose and ugly 
> syntactically, and it is still tedious if you only use the 
> specific resource in one location.  "scope(exit)" is often more 
> transparent IMO.

I guess this is matter of style and various tradeoff. A very 
common operation to rollback probably deserve its own RAII 
struct. An uncommon one is better served with scope.