On 20/11/11 2:20 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Sunday, November 20, 2011 14:22:16 Peter Alexander wrote:
On 20/11/11 1:46 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Sunday, November 20, 2011 13:47:31 Peter Alexander wrote:
On 20/11/11 8:40 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Thanks to all who provided feedback! I read again the entire thread,
then made one more pass:
http://d-programming-language.org/new/
Much better :-)
A few comments:
Can we please not use the term RAII? First, only C++ people know what
it
means, and second, its expansion doesn't tell you what it does or what
it is used for. Just say something like "scoped deterministic memory
management" or something like that. I'm sure C++ people will link that
to RAII, and non-C++ people will have a better idea of what it means.
Making it a link to wikipedia should be plenty. The C++ will know what
RAII is, and anyone who's learning D should learn it. The combination
of an example, the brief explanation that's there, and a link to
Wikipedia should be plenty for people to be able to figure out what
they need to know. And it _is_ a very important feature for those who
know what it means.
I just think it's a terrible acronym and that we shouldn't be promoting
its use. What part of "resource acquisition is initialization" tells me
that its main purpose is deterministic, scoped resource management?
They should learn the concept but not the acronym ;-)
It's well-established at this point. It would _increase_ confusion for many if
we tried to avoid the term.
- Jonathan M Davis
It's *only* established in the C++ community, and I would even suspect
that majority of working C++ programmers don't know what it means (even
though they know the concept).
The vast majority of programmers (i.e. non-C++ programmers) have no idea
what it means, can't tell from the name, and when they learn it they'll
have no why it was called that.
