Am 26.09.2014 20:46, schrieb Walter Bright:
On 9/26/2014 4:02 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
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.
I wrote a C++ compiler in 1987. Nobody had ever heard of exceptions.
Bjarne's 1986 "The C++ Programming Language" does not mention RAII or
exceptions, but does say on pg. 158:
"Calling constructors and destructors for static objects serves an
extremely important function in C++. It is the way to ensure proper
initialization and cleanup of data structures in libraries."
This is what happens when people take for granted what Wikipedia says.
At least in this regard, there are still people alive that lived through
the events.
--
Paulo
