I just got a new book :-)
More Exceptional C++, and I found a couple of nice rules that I want us to
adopt:
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Always perform unmanaged resource acquisition in the constructor body,
never in initializer lists.
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Perform every explicit resource allocation (for example, new) in its
own code statement, which immidiately gives the new'd resource to a
manager object (for example, auto_ptr.)
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Both of these has to do with exception safety, and even if we do not
use exceptions yet, we should think about this now.
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Lgb
