You're free to have your opinion, but the C++ books I've read disagree...

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:40:23 +0200, JC <johnch_atms@hotmail.com> wrote...

I realise (and was pointed out already that I misunderstood). Ugliness is definitely in the...

According to whom? That's a style thing, not a rule.

Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. And 'var' was never proposed for RAII.

Okay seems I misunderstood. Though I dont see why this makes it better. 'auto' as...

...point because 'var' isn't used with RAII but with type inference only. ;)

'var' just...

But I think 'var' would mean type inference, not RAII.

...and doesn't really tell you that RAII is in action.

The other storage classes...

I think you are right. Hadn't thought of this.