Re: Is this pattern OK?

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Ben Voigt [C++ MVP] <rbv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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What you ought to do instead is convert try / finally { Dispose(); } into
using blocks, which automatically handle the null case.

They also cope with the possibility of Dispose calls throwing
exceptions - with a single finally block, if an early Dispose call
fails, the rest won't get executed.

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