Is it abusive to use IDisposable and “using” as a means for getting “scoped behavior” for exception safety?

I don't think so, necessarily. IDisposable technically is meant to be used for things that have non-managed resources, but then the using directive is just a neat way of implementing a common pattern of try .. finally { dispose } .

I consider this to be an abuse of the using statement. I am aware that I'm in the minority on this position.

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