scope guards revisited [C++0x style]

If you havn’t heard about scope guards you might want to have a look at this ddj article. The idea of scope guards is to provide a convenient tool for resource management when exception safety is an issue. Of course you can always try to write little special-purpose classes and create instances on the stack so that some specific (“cleanup”) action is performed in the destructor. Sometimes it’s just tedious to have to write those special classes and you wish for a tool that lets you get away without them. That’s a situation where the scope guard idiom could help you.

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