RAII

English

Etymology

Coined by Bjarne Stroustrup.

Noun

RAII (uncountable)

  1. (programming) Initialism of Resource Acquisition Is Initialization, a popular design pattern in object-oriented programming that ties resources to the lifespan of associated objects to prevent resource leakage.
    • 2019, Fedor G. Pikus, Hands-On Design Patterns with C++, page 469:
      With RAII, the closing action cannot be skipped or bypassed, even if the function exits the scope prematurely with an early return or by throwing an exception.

Synonyms

  • CADRe (Constructor Acquires, Destructor Releases)
  • SBRM (Scope-based Resource Management)

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