Is there a favored idiom for mimicing Java's try/finally in C++?

Question

Been doing Java for number of years so haven\'t been tracking C++. Has finally clause been added to C++ exception handling in the language definition?<

Answer 1

Regarding your addendum-edit, yes closures are being considered for C++0x. They can be used with RAII scoped guards to provide an easy to use solution, check Pizer's weblog. They can also be used to mimic try-finally, see this answer ; but is this really a good idea ? .