> RAII simplifies some of the resource cleanup, but at a cost: if the resource cleanup fails, there’s essentially no way to convey this. RAII at least provides

> RAII simplifies some of the resource cleanup, but at a cost: if the resource cleanup fails, there’s essentially no way to convey this. RAII at least provides a decent default. After all, most resource cleanup cannot fail, or you cannot do much other than print an error. Now, if you need to catch errors during a particular cleanup, you can still do it manually, but RAII lets you focus on these few cases.