Comments on: Shouldn’t RAII should be RDID??? http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2009/12/11/shouldnt-raii-should-be-rdid/ About Software Development And Other Stuff By Igor Zevaka Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:50:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: rmn http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2009/12/11/shouldnt-raii-should-be-rdid/comment-page-1/#comment-242 rmn Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:30:35 +0000 http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/?p=157#comment-242 <p>I couldn't agree more about what you said on design patterns :) I think that the fact that the design patterns only give a name to something most of us have been doing anyway, is just great - it makes it easier to discuss such practices and formalize the design decisions we make. It basically provides us with a proper terminology.</p> <p>Regarding RAII.. Well, perhaps you are right :) The most important aspect of it is indeed the fact that the destructor is guaranteed to work, no matter what happens - be it a rogue exception, regular termination of the code block, anything.</p> <p>Thanks for the read.</p> I couldn’t agree more about what you said on design patterns :) I think that the fact that the design patterns only give a name to something most of us have been doing anyway, is just great – it makes it easier to discuss such practices and formalize the design decisions we make. It basically provides us with a proper terminology.

Regarding RAII.. Well, perhaps you are right :) The most important aspect of it is indeed the fact that the destructor is guaranteed to work, no matter what happens – be it a rogue exception, regular termination of the code block, anything.

Thanks for the read.

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