Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer?

From	Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com>
Subject	Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer?
Date	2011-08-28 04:15 +0100
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:27:46 -0700, BGB wrote:

>> The beauty of RAII is you don't have to implement it manually! This
>> eliminates a whole class of common programming errors.
> 
> yep, but this is still more of a convenience feature, rather than a 
> fundamental limitation.

You can't take this argument much further before you start arguing that
everything about high-level languages is a convenience, because you could
do the same thing in assembler.

> it is not really too much different from using OpenGL and remembering to 
> always have a matching "glEnd();" for every "glBegin();", or a 
> "glPopMatrix();" for every "glPushMatrix();".

That's slightly different, as you normally care about the precise location
of the glEnd/glPopMatrix/etc. With destruction, you normally only care
that the object gets destroyed "soon" after its last use. You can force
destruction by using an extra block, but this is seldom considered
necessary.

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which of these 3 casts would you prefer? "A" <a@a.a> - 2011-08-25 23:58 +0200
  Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-25 16:19 -0700
  Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-25 18:59 -0500
  Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach:usenet@gmail.com> - 2011-08-26 08:02 +0200
  Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? "Duga Chernobyl" <duga_c3@gmx.com> - 2011-08-26 10:05 +0200
    Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? "A" <a@a.a> - 2011-08-26 14:40 +0200
      Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Leigh Johnston <leigh@i42.co.uk> - 2011-08-26 13:59 +0100
      Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? "Duga Chernobyl" <duga_c3@gmx.com> - 2011-08-26 15:19 +0200
        Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-08-26 21:27 +0000
          Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach:usenet@gmail.com> - 2011-08-27 01:28 +0200
          Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? "Duga Chernobyl" <duga_c3@gmx.com> - 2011-08-27 10:23 +0200
            Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-08-27 12:10 +0000
          Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? RaZiel <raziel_206_@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-27 21:55 +0200
          Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-09-01 08:03 +0900
            Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-31 23:11 -0700
            Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-09-01 19:34 +0000
              Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 15:37 -0700
                Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 00:30 -0700
                Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-09-03 18:26 +0900
      Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Edek <edek.pienkowski@gmail.com> - 2011-08-26 15:29 +0200
      Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-27 09:35 -0700
        Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-08-27 18:38 +0000
          Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Noah Roberts <roberts.noah@gmail.com> - 2011-08-27 12:32 -0700
            Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-27 14:51 -0700
              Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-08-29 14:10 +0000
                Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-30 07:23 -0700
            Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-08-29 11:32 +0000
          Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-27 14:37 -0700
            Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-28 10:06 +1200
              Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-27 15:27 -0700
                Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-28 10:47 +1200
                Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Noah Roberts <roberts.noah@gmail.com> - 2011-08-27 15:42 -0700
                Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-08-28 04:15 +0100
            Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Noah Roberts <roberts.noah@gmail.com> - 2011-08-27 15:52 -0700
              Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-28 01:54 -0700
                Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Keith H Duggar <duggar@alum.mit.edu> - 2011-09-04 19:16 -0700
            Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-08-29 18:16 +0000
              Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Noah Roberts <roberts.noah@gmail.com> - 2011-08-29 16:35 -0700
                Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-08-30 04:13 +0100
                Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-08-30 06:03 +0000
              Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-30 07:12 -0700
                Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-08-31 06:16 +0000
                Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-01 03:05 -0700
                Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-09-01 07:00 +0000
                Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-31 13:21 -0700
          Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-08-28 19:30 +0000
      Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Noah Roberts <roberts.noah@gmail.com> - 2011-08-27 12:19 -0700
        Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2011-08-28 12:08 +0200
        Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-08-28 19:44 +0000
          Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Noah Roberts <roberts.noah@gmail.com> - 2011-08-28 13:41 -0700
    Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer? Anand Hariharan <mailto.anand.hariharan@gmail.com> - 2011-08-26 07:30 -0700

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