Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer?
Noah Roberts <roberts.noah@gmail.com> wrote:
Exceptions are by far the only place where RAII is useful. 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. Without
you're stuck making sure you manually release those parts you were so
far able to acquire.
Yeah, it can be said that it's "just" a convenience but I have to say
it's a pretty damn big one. Sort of like having a car is only a
"convenience" when you need to travel 100 miles.
And code blocks are not the only situation where RAII comes into play.
It also does so when types (which have to be constructed and destroyed
properly) are members of other types, or inside data containers. With
RAII the parent type doesn't need to worry about the member object: It
will be automatically constructed and destroyed approperiately, without
the parent type having to do anything special about it (with the only
exception being if the member object needs some constructor parameters,
which of course makes sense).
This even in the case of a specific type using another specific type
as a member. It becomes even more important with generic programming.
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