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CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “Declarative Control Flow"
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Andrei Alexandrescu's CppCon 2015 talk on handling exceptional control flow declaratively in C++. It uses scope guards with success and failure variants, built on std::uncaught_exceptions, to replace ad hoc RAII classes and rethrowing try/catch blocks.
Pointed to in threads on defer, scope_exit and RAII as the clearest treatment of scope guards.
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