...from the class to provide it). When RAII is involved, it can choose which version...

You miss-understand. I don't want stack allocation at all. I'm saying 2...

I vote for banana!

or scope.. seems good to reuse it; without parentheses after scope...

I disagree.

If you want the compiler to be able to optimize by using stack...

...to allow the compiler to allocate an RAII type in any way it wants, perhaps...

I don't use "var" specifically but I have been known to use tmp, x...

...confusion with raii that's the issue, yes?

I suspect the ratio of raii usage...

...somewhat confused (with raii). If we instead use "scope" to indicate raii, that confusion just...

I'm sorry but I don't believe there are many programmers out there actually...

...you could count the current number of raii-class uses on a few hands, whereas...