Boost C++ Libraries

Description

The scope exit declaration schedules the execution of the scope exit body at the exit of the enclosing scope:

    { // Some local scope.
        ...
        BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT(capture_list) {
            ... // Body code.
        } BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT_END
        ...
    }

The enclosing scope must be local. If multiple scope exits are declared within the same enclosing scope, the scope exit bodies are executed in the reversed order of their declarations. Note how the end of the scope exit body must be marked by BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT_END.

Parameters:

    capture_list:
            void | capture_tuple | capture_sequence
    capture_tuple:
            capture, capture, ...
    capture_sequence:
            (capture) (capture) ...
    capture:
            [&]variable | this_

    capture_list:
            void | capture_sequence

    capture:
            [&]variable | this_ | this

Note that on compilers that support variadic macros (most of moder compliers and all C++11 compilers), the capture list can be specified as a comma-separated list of tokens (this is the preferred syntax). However, on all compilers the same macro BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT also allows to specify the capture list as a Boost.Preprocessor sequence of tokens (for supporting compilers without variadic macros and for backward compatibility with older versions of this library).

The name variable of each captured variable must be a valid name in the enclosing scope and it must appear exactly once in the capture list. If a capture starts with the ampersand sign &, the corresponding variable will be available by reference within the scope exit body; otherwise, a copy of the variable will be made at the point of the scope exit declaration and that copy will be available inside the scope exit body (in this case, the variable's type must be CopyConstructible).

From within a member function, the object this can be captured using the special name this_ in both the capture list and the scope exit body (using this instead of this_ in the scope exit body leads to undefined behaviour).

It is possible to capture no variable by specifying the capture list as void (regardless of variadic macro support).

Only variables listed in the capture list, static variables, extern variables, global variables, functions, and enumerations from the enclosing scope can be used inside the scope exit body.

On various GCC versions the special macro BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT_TPL must be used instead of BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT within templates (to maximize portability, it is recommended to always use BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT_TPL within templates).

On C++11, it is possible capture all variables in scope without listing their names one-by-one using the macro BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT_ALL.

In general, the special macro BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT_ID must be used instead of BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT when it is necessary to expand multiple scope exit declarations on the same line.

Warning: The implementation executes the scope exit body within a destructor thus the scope exit body must never throw in order to comply with STL exception safety requirements.

Note: The implementation uses Boost.Typeof to automatically deduce the types of the captured variables. In order to compile code in type-of emulation mode, all types must be properly registered with Boost.Typeof (see the Getting Started section).

See: Tutorial section, Getting Started section, No Variadic Macros section, BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT_TPL, BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT_ALL, BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT_END, BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT_ID.