Re: [Boost-users] How to automatically release legacy resources?

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-22 00:20:00

At Friday 2005-01-21 15:13, you wrote:
>Mauricio Gomes wrote:
>
> > I would create a class (File or other name) that close() on its
> > destructor.
>
>I do not like this solution, but not because it doesn't work.  It works
>just fine, and probably better than the more complicated alternatives
>that I have been thinking of.
>
>The trouble is that its 'difficult.'  Writing a class to do this takes a
>small but significant amount of effort.  Maintaining code with this
>class be be slightly but significantly more difficult.
>
>In particular, in code specific to a particular problem domain (as
>opposed to in general-purpose libraries), I don't like to see a whole
>lot of code that has nothing to do with that domain, or adds a whole lot
>of structure for very little expressive benefit.  This sort of verbosity
>is a problem--I think--and a particular problem for C++.  A significant
>criticism of C++ that I have heard is that the implementation of many
>sorts of code requires too structure, so that there is less actual
>expressive code than non-expressive code.

yeah?  well how do you do this in any OTHER language?
be _expressive_  please...  enquiring minds want to know!

>Aaron W. LaFramboise
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