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0 pointsfeelamee1mo ago0 comments

if you do it once - why do you care about "ugly" scope_exit? btw, writing such wrappers is easy and does not require a lot of code.

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mort961mo ago

What do you mean with '"ugly" scope_exit'?

Do you mean why I care that I have to call the free function at every exit point of the scope? That's easy: because it's error prone. Defer is much less error prone.

feelameeOP1mo ago

your words... > C++ implementations of defer are either really ugly

I agree with @pjmlp - you need to write wrappers around the C api.

But if you.. > If I'm gonna write RAII wrappers around every tiny little thing that I happen to need to call once

use them just once.. so, why care about ugliness, just write ugly code just once? Code can't be perfect.

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