Re: Order of destruct of local variables

JoshuaMaurice@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> Also, to get back to the first point of this thread. The big reason
> why the order of destruction of local objects is defined this way is
> RAII. 

I don't think that is true.
Rather, it is the other way around. We can have RAII because destruction
is in the reverse order of construction.

Bart v Ingen Schenau
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