...much better solution, and wrapping a class inside a struct would give it RAII semantics.

...one curiously omitted from the lists is RAII. That "lil thing" will PERMEATE a program...

...don't need full control.  I need RAII for dynamically allocated objects, with destructors that...

...life in D because scope statements and RAII are just that good.  Does anyone, other...

...usually used for handling RAII in languages that don't have RAII, so I don...

...for another reason (managing errors, not doing RAII). Of course you can find convoluted ways...

...Yes, you can emulate RAII with the with statement, but with RAII (objects that destruct...

I mostly agree, but python actually has a rather elegant version of RAII.

...catch-finally paradigm

7. static verification

8. RAII

9. versioning

10. ability to manage resources...

...this a "non-pure" immutable RAII, doesn't it?

Also, RAII does not stand for...