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One-liner RAII in Delphi

Entropy Overload – Some C++ aficionados point at the ability, in C++, to create an object such that the creation allocates some kind of resource, and the destruction frees the resource, with much glee. The idiom is RAII: Resource Acquisition Is Initialization. The technique can be a useful, albeit somewhat opaque, way of acquiring a resource for the duration of a block of code and relinquishing the resource upon exiting the block. It's C++'s equivalent of Delphi / Java / C# / SEH's try / finally blocks (though of course C#'s "using" statement is an even closer analogue). Delphi has a similar mechanism in the ...

Favorite? Off-Topic? Barry Kelly @ 2010-01-29 21:52