Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The case of RAII vs gc is hardly conclusive:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228620/garbage-collection-in-c-why
The purpose of RAII is not to be an alternative to garbage collection
(which the those answers imply), but to ensure deterministc execution of
setup and tear-down code. The Python equivalent of RAII is not garbage
collection but context managers.
Those answers is a testimony to how little the majority of C++ users
actually understand about the language.
A C++ statement with RAII like
{
Foo bar();
// suite
}
is not equivalent to
bar = Foo()
in Python. It actually corresponds to
with Foo() as bar:
<suite>
Sturla
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