I agree with you regarding dynamic allocation. RAII is an orthogonal concept to dynamic allocation though, and it's actually beneficial because it forces you to

I agree with you regarding dynamic allocation. RAII is an orthogonal concept to dynamic allocation though, and it's actually beneficial because it forces you to declare all your resources up front or die. Even in the case that you're using an STL container, it's probably a hash table or tree data structure, and you're probably populating it at initialization time with a defined quantity of items. In that case, even if it's doing heap allocation it's effectively static allocation.