[boost] Boostifying ScopeGuard

From: Joe Swatosh (joe-swatosh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-05 20:17:24

Petru Marginean and Andrei Alexandrescu wrote a handy group of classes that will call a function when a "guard" object goes out of scope (unless the "guard" has been "dismissed"), that they documented in a CUJ "C++ Experts Forum" column.  The article is available online:
http://www.cuj.com/experts/1812/alexandr.htm?topic=experts

With their permission, I've attempted to "boostify" this group of classes.  I have uploaded these files to the "vault" (together they are fewer than 200 lines so I hope not compressing them isn't too big a deal).  The code has been tested with VC6SP5, VC7, and Borland 5.5.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/scope_guard/scope_guard_test.cpp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/scope_guard/scope_guard.hpp

I realized that much of the code in the original was for binding arguments to the function to be called and so could be replaced by boost::bind.  Other than that I renamed things to be more like the naming conventions on the boost website, and simplified where possible.

I recognize that this is basically a primitive "smart resource" and that smart resources have been discussed a lot lately especially in the context of smart pointers.  These classes are just so simple and useful that I want to propose something _now_ to fill the gap.  This much too small to be a boost library by itself and I'm not sure where it might fit, so here it is to talk about.

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