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Ask HN: What should have been the term for RAII?
Bjarne Stroustrup himself said he was very busy when he came up with the name for this concept, that it’s not a very good name, and joked he’s not good at “marketing“.
What would be a better terminology?
As I’ve been learning modern C++, I admit that I’ve struggled to understand why these terms make sense. To me, I think of it like “Resource Acquisition Promising Release”. Does this betray that I am not truly understanding Strourstrup’s principle?