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C++ has scope_exit for running code at scope exit. C# says "We have scope_exit at home." - The Old New Thing (devblogs.microsoft.com)

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[–] Mihies@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

IDisposable is not that at all. At least not implicitly. It's a convention, one has to call Dispose to do anything. Edit: I might have misunderstood scope_exit 🥹