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Re:Modern C [pdf] by 72deluxe on Monday November 28, 2016 @12:19PM (#13056828)
Are you looking for "return"?

With C++ you can ensure that you have your destructors do the tidy up, e.g. a messy example

struct cleaner { cleaner(string *toCleanup) : m_x(toCleanup) { } ~cleaner() { delete m_x; m_x = nullptr; } };

Re:Modern C [pdf] by ape4 on Monday November 28, 2016 @01:01PM (#13057153)
Yup, C++ has autocleanup. Of course if you are using fopen() instead something more modern you'll need to fclose(). Adding a new keywords to C is a long shot. Perhaps compilers could detect non-cleanup use of goto and give it a warning.
Re:Modern C [pdf] by int_19h on Monday November 28, 2016 @04:56PM (#13058772)
A typical C++ codebase I'm working on these days would have scope guards implemented via macros, such that you can do e.g.:

    FILE* f = fopen(...);
    SCOPE_GUARD({ fclose(f); });
This is mainly used for one-off calls to some native API, where writing a proper RAII wrapper for the managed resource is not worth it.