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RAII: stands for "Resource Acquisition is Initialisation"

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Unfortunately, the name is even more terrible than initially was
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## Description
RAII stands for "Resource allocation is initialisation" which is a terrible
[RAII][wikipedia] stands for "Resource Acquisition is Initialisation" which is a terrible
name. The essence of the pattern is that resource initialisation is done in the
constructor of an object and finalisation in the destructor. This pattern is
extended in Rust by using an RAII object as a guard of some resource and relying
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[Finalisation in destructors idiom](../idioms/dtor-finally.md)
RAII is a common pattern in C++: [cppreference.com](http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/raii),
[wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initialization).
[wikipedia][wikipedia].
[wikipedia]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initialization
[Style guide enty](http://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/style/ownership/raii.html)
(currently just a placeholder).