try, finally

[me22]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Jason Cipriani
<jason.cipriani@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Does std or boost have some kind of "smart pointers" that let me
>  define the cleanup actions without having to write too much additional
>  code?
>

Yup, boost::shared_ptr (std::shared_ptr, in C++1x) will let you do that.

boost::shared_ptr<xmlDoc> doc( xmlReadFile(...), xmlFreeDoc );
if (!doc) throw something();

etc