On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 10:01:32 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 09:41:09 UTC, Paulo Pinto
wrote:
This is completely not true, we were using RAII in C++ before
any compiler had real support for exceptions.
Well, I haven't read the 1990 edition of the annotated C++
reference by Stroustrup and Ellis since the mid 90s so my
memory may be clouded, but that is how I remember it.
And wikipedia says the same:
«The technique was developed for exception-safe resource
management in C++[3] during 1984–89»
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initialization
I don't care what Wikipedia says, I was there in the early C++
days happily using Turbo and Borland C++ in MS-DOS.
--
Paulo
