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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 21:28:28 +0000 (UTC)
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Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:

> The case of RAII vs gc is hardly conclusive:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228620/garbage-collection-in-c-why

The purpose of RAII is not to be an alternative to garbage collection
(which the those answers imply), but to ensure  deterministc execution of
setup and tear-down code. The Python equivalent of RAII is not garbage
collection but context managers.

Those answers is a testimony to how little the majority of C++ users
actually understand about the language.



A C++ statement with RAII like

{
   Foo bar(); 
   // suite
}

is not equivalent to

    bar = Foo()

in Python. It actually corresponds to

with Foo() as bar:
    <suite>



Sturla