Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

raii

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.38 in modern English

Syllables: raii
IPA

4

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

Coined by Bjarne Stroustrup.

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

CADRe SBRM

Questions

What does raii mean?: 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.
Where does raii come from?: Coined by Bjarne Stroustrup.

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