Re: attack of silly coding standard?

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D6=F6_Tiib?= <ootiib@hot.ee>
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comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 7 Dec 2010 21:53:29 -0800 (PST)
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On Dec 7, 4:59 pm, Bart van Ingen Schenau <b...@ingen.ddns.info>
wrote:

On Dec 7, 5:29 am, =D6=F6 Tiib <oot...@hot.ee> wrote:

On Dec 6, 7:08 pm, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:

With C++ most of us expect RAII (OOP) idiom to be used to let
destructors to deal with releasing resources instead of
explicit resource management of C. That is most robust and
simple way.


And? What does that have to do with the original question? Or
OO?


Resources are therefore always bound and handled as objects/parts of
objects. Not something external managed outside of objects manually.
So my impression is that RAII means that C++ style OOP is used for
resource management.


By that characterization, I postulate that this program is also
written using the OOP paradigm:

<code>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <algorithm>
#include <list>
using namespace std;

int main() {
  list<int> data((istream_iterator<int>(cin)),
istream_iterator<int>());

  data.sort();
  copy(data.begin(), data.end(), ostream_iterator<int>(cout, ","));}

</code>

The code clearly uses objects and RAII to manage resources.


Perhaps misunderstanding. I claimed that RAII uses OOP to manage
resources not that OOP must use RAII nor that RAII is OOP. RAII is
idiom that fits with OOP. However if you have C++ then you may use
that RAII anyway even if what you do is processing ints from stdin
into ints going to stdout.

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