Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> The destructor semantics is one of the things I think C++ really did get 
> just right.

  The proper name for that mechanism would be "RAII" (which might be
somewhat of a misnomer, as it doesn't fully express what it means).

  (In principle RAII is not incompatible with garbage collection, so
conceivably you could have both in the same language.)

  According to wikipedia, C++ is not the only language using RAII, and
mentions Ada as another one. I didn't know that.

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                                                          - Warp

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