...dispose() method? Otherwise, said dtor would imply raii for the borrowed connection, which would be...

...invocation via delete keyword
- explicit invocation via raii

dtor state 'unspecified':
- implicitly called when no...

...ConnectionUsage wherever you need one. Both are RAII. ConnectionPool acts as a factory for ConnectionUsage...

...of a dtor implies "auto" (and thus raii), how does one manage a "pool" of...

...willing to settle for an easy solution, RAII via classes would work:

class HandleWrapper
{
    HANDLE...

...cleanup needs to be done, making it RAII be definition, no? And any class containing...

...are actually scoped on the stack (for RAII purposes), where the enclosing function doesn't...

FWIW, I fully agree.

Yes, and thinking of a class that needs "destructing", which then...

...is that this wouldn't make the RAII behaviour apparent to somebody reading the code...

...the class RAII indicator?

Thus, any class with a dtor is automatically RAII. When the...