Re: win32 design patterns
* Giovanni Dicanio:
"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rbv@nospam.nospam> ha scritto nel messaggio
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Nothing could be farther form the truth. Why do you think .NET
environment called "managed" after all? For exactly the reason that it
manages resources for you. .NET has garbage collector, wich can be tuned
to great extend. GC makes RAII irrlevant in most of the cases.
Nonsense. GC makes RAII irrelevant in only one case: memory is the only
resource.
So in C#, if a non-memory resource (like a file) is not "guarded" by a
'using' block, is this resource leaked if an exception is thrown??
.... or execution leaves that block by any means, such as normal exit at
end, return statement, break...
Of course absence of RAII doesn't /guarantee/ leaks.
You just get into a probabilistic instead of deterministic realm. Some
like that. Some don't.
Cheers, & hth.
- Alf
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