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[jolene]

"hey i want to start coding, how do i do that?"

ubik: i recommend you start using linux. also here's an unprompted rant on sjws

[Layl]

If you need the resource to be freed then that's fine but if you just want a block of code why bother to do the idisposable dance? you could declare it locally in the block.

Because if I do this:

Code:

_shader.Activate();
_shader.Stuff();
_shader.Deactivate();

And an exception happens in Stuff(), it won't deactivate it again. Of course I could put it in a finally block but that would take up even more space. I really want to do this in proper C++ style RAII, but unfortunately this is the only way I can get anything like a deterministic destructor in C#.

[jolene]

For short statements like in your example people do it all the time, I don't see anything wrong with it. Just remember to fill in spaces so that statements are aligned horizontally:

Code:

select(a)
{
   case 0:   b = 2;   break;
   case 1:   b = 425426;   break;
   case 2:   b = 32432431262;  break;
   default:  b = 0;   break;
}

thats dum cos im going to change the values like this

[Netsu]

Then you can readjust all the lines accordingly, obviously, or revert back to a multiline setup.

[ThemsAllTook]

I've always felt like that particular problem could be solved by intelligent rendering of tab stops. If text editors would treat tab characters after non-whitespace characters as vertical alignment markers and adjust consecutive lines of text to match up, you could just use tabs to align all that. I suppose you'd have a problem if two tab-aligned sections of code were right next to each other, though...

[InfiniteStateMachine]

If you need the resource to be freed then that's fine but if you just want a block of code why bother to do the idisposable dance? you could declare it locally in the block.

Because if I do this:

Code:

_shader.Activate();
_shader.Stuff();
_shader.Deactivate();

And an exception happens in Stuff(), it won't deactivate it again. Of course I could put it in a finally block but that would take up even more space. I really want to do this in proper C++ style RAII, but unfortunately this is the only way I can get anything like a deterministic destructor in C#.

Ah yes so you do need to release the resource. I thought you were implying you wrap everything like that regardless of whether or not it needs to be freed

[Impmaster]

posting to follow, cause im a nooby coder and i gotta get good