Re: Is this good style of C++?

From: Ioannis Vranos (ivr_at_remove.this.grad.com)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 04:51:05 +0200

Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>
> Morgan Cheng wrote:
>
>> If I implements RAII strictly, do you mean that memory leak can be
>> avoided totally? even exception is possibly to be thrown?
>
>
>
> Yes, along with other resource types leaks (IP connections, file
> operations etc).
>
>
> All C++ standard library types support RAII (except of the C subset
> types of course).
>
>
>
>> So, RAII is based on the fact that: At the end of a scope, through
>> normal running or exception thrown, objects in the scope will be
>> destructed.
>
>
>
> Exactly.
>
>
>
>> If resource is allocated explictly, objects pointed by pointer will
>> not be released by releasing the pointer. So, we wrap dynamic resource
>> allocation with a local object.
>> Am my understanding right?
>
>
>
> Yes.

I want to mention here that using RAII in your applications is fairly easy.

The most obvious way is to use a vector for your objects (or some other
standard library container if it is more suitable), instead of an array
in the free store.

And you have no space/time cost doing this. 

-- 
Ioannis Vranos
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