Quote Originally Posted by laserlight View Post
There is a difference in scope and thus lifetime due to the use of RAII. I think dshawul already explained the idea: to release a resource - that may have a non-negligible cost to keep around - when it is no longer in use. In a way, it is akin to the idea of a scoped lock.
Well, yeah. But he was making it sound like it was a bad thing to do.