Yes, I am talking about this at a higher abstraction level than the specifics only of c++ & OpenGL textures. I guess that wasn't clear enough. I was only atte

Yes, I am talking about this at a higher abstraction level than the specifics only of c++ & OpenGL textures. I guess that wasn't clear enough. I was only attempting to make that point that wrapping handles with other handles, rather than being silly, is a pretty good pattern to address this problem, and it shows up all over. The file handle thing I already pointed out; there are better examples.