...that you are thinking about how to remove 'auto'/RAII, right?

Andrew.
http://terrainformatica.com

...meaningful than the backflips often required by RAII.  And while the proposed C++ shared_ptr...

...exit? And if so, how do I auto-type objects without the RAII functionality?


Sean

...it?

See Walter's reply.

Not necessarily. RAII and finally could be seen as "similar...

...implementation of ScopeGuard. Compared to ctor/dtor RAII, though, it still has the same problem...

...more serious note, I think auto for RAII makes some sense.  After all, the original...

...auto for RAII is not even barely bearable. We could even use "raii" rather than...

...e. it is the same thing as RAII. It doesn't allow arbitrary code to...

...var" to "auto", but then again the RAII "auto" could use a rename too)

L.

...bar) { }
   baz(auto Foo f = new Foo); // RAII, f being destructed when baz() returns.
etc