Stroustrup's RAII code

[elelont2]

I am watching a video where B. Stroustrup talks about c++ - link-> (31:23) ()[^] I have trouble understanding the RAII slide: http://www.upload.ee/image/4090006/raii.png 1) Why doesn't he catch the exception? 2) I keep reading that when constructor throws, the destructor of an object is never called. Regards

[Lost User]

1. In a real program he most likely catches it in the code that tries to create the object. 2) If the constructor throws an exception then the object is not created so there is no destructor to call. 3) Why not ask Stroustrup?

[CPallini]

1. Why should he? 2) That's fine: if the constructor cannot open the file then the destructor fclose call doesn't make sense.

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[Joe Woodbury]

Why doesn't he use the handle? It's for illustration purposes only.