alt Hacker NewsTo be fair, RAII is so much more than just automatic cleanup. It's a shame how misunderstood this idea has become over the years
To be fair, RAII is so much more than just automatic cleanup. It's a shame how misunderstood this idea has become over the years
Can you share some sources that give a more complete overview of it?
I got out my 4e Stroustrup book and checked the index, RAII only comes up when discussing resource management.
Interestingly, the verbatim introduction to RAII given is:
> ... RAII allows us to eliminate "naked new operations," that is, to avoid allocations in general code and keep them buried inside the implementation of well-behaved abstractions. Similarly "naked delete" operations should be avoided. Avoiding naked new and naked delete makes code far less error-prone and far easier to keep free of resource leaks
From the embedded standpoint, and after working with Zig a bit, I'm not convinced about that last line. Hiding heap allocations seems like it make it harder to avoid resource leaks!