From: Greg Colvin (gcolvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-04-07 11:01:12
Sorry, but I'm not seeing the point of this class. It seems that
you have to write something like
struct ReleaseFile {
void operator()(FILE* fp) {
if (fp)
fclose(fp);
}
}:
in order to write
auto_res<FILE*,ReleaseFile> file(fopen(name,mode));
when you could almost as easily write
struct File {
FILE* fp;
File(FILE* fp) : fp(fp) {}
~File {
if (fp)
fclose(fp);
}
}:
and then more easily write
File file(fopen(name,mode));
Are you dealing with so many resources that wrapping up each one
is too much trouble? Perhaps then you should be lobbying for C++
to have finally blocks.