On Saturday, February 12, 2011, Peter Geoghegan
<peter.geoghegan86@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 February 2011 14:22, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>> Note the lack of a delete - that's the point here; it's not needed
>> because as soon as the smart pointer goes out of scope, it's
>> destructor will delete foo. That means you don't have to remember to
>> include the delete in each of the many exit points of the code.
>>
>> See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initialization
>
> "Resource Acquisition is Initialization" is a terrible name.
Couldn't agree more.
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