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	2011-08-30 04:13 +0100
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:35:26 -0700, Noah Roberts wrote:

>>   You write as if the lack of RAII was only a minor inconvenience. I don't
>> agree with that.
> 
> Yeah, how did I miss that gem?  I agree with you.
> 
> Exceptions are by far the only place where RAII is useful.

I presume you mean "far from" rather than "by far"?

> They are
> but one way for a function to exit early.  Any and all times that you
> have a resource or more to allocate and can leave a function early due
> to error conditions is an important place to be using RAII.

Not just functions, but any block. Aside from return: break, continue and
goto can cause automatic variables to leave scope.

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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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