There's even a commonly used name for it: Resource Acquisition is Initialization (RAII). It's been around for many years, and is fundamental to modern C++ styl

There's even a commonly used name for it: Resource Acquisition is Initialization (RAII). It's been around for many years, and is fundamental to modern C++ style. It's beyond steep to claim we've never heard of it, just because some language has a feature that helps make it easy. Python has "with," Ruby has blocks, many languages have higher-order functions. Not an uncommon concept.