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		kgeist on Jan 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A simple defer feature for C Defer is used to automatically release resources on function exit, I'm not sure how result types will help here. Can you give an example?

the_gipsy on Jan 16, 2022 [–]

It's an alternative to try...finally or RAII.

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