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That's not my point. The point is that this feature once was the hot new thing, and in the future there will be a hot new way to do the same thing in addition t
by ModernMech 5y ago
That's not my point. The point is that this feature once was the hot new thing, and in the future there will be a hot new way to do the same thing in addition to all the old ways, because that's how C++ evolves.
And I would have to say the average C++ dev did not know about RAII in 1993.
- KerrAvon 5y agoFor the sake of pedantry only: I don't think we called it RAII in 1993-1996, but the technique was in use in that period, though it wasn't standardized in any way. IIRC, Mac developers would have been widely exposed to it by Metrowerks PowerPlant during that time.
- ncmncm 5y agoDestructors have been in C++ since the mid-80s. Anybody who did not know about RAII in 1993 did not know any C++.