https://clemens.meinhart.one/tags/c++/ Recent content in C++ on Clemens Meinhart Hugo en-US Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://clemens.meinhart.one/blog/2015-10-20-raii/ Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://clemens.meinhart.one/blog/2015-10-20-raii/ <p>RAII - short for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_acquisition_is_initialization">Resource Acquisition Is Initialization</a> - is one of my favorite programming idioms. In C++, it is very useful to bind resources to the lifetime of objects. Obvious use cases are of course locks and handling heap resources. Every basic RAII example out there will showcase one or the other.</p>