[WizzleKake]

Why not just put a and b on the stack then? ;)

Bjarne says, "Code that creates an object using new and then deletes it at the end of the same scope is ugly, error-prone, and inefficient."

[KeytarHero]

Because it's an example of allocating things on the heap. You could also say the same about the "good" RAII version shown - but then there wouldn't be much point to the article, would there?