If you read the article with more sympathy, you will notice that he is using RAII, I think rather cleverly, to automate removal of an object from the intrusive

If you read the article with more sympathy, you will notice that he is using RAII, I think rather cleverly, to automate removal of an object from the intrusive lists contained within it. This is a interesting improvement over the venerable list.h style approach most C programmers take. As for std::list... it's useless.