> I cannot write an abstraction in C, which closes a file handle automatically. Of course you can. It's just a question of convenience, and whether the result

> I cannot write an abstraction in C, which closes a file handle automatically. Of course you can. It's just a question of convenience, and whether the resulting style would align with idiomatic C. In my imagined implementation, it would look more like awkward JavaScript. There are many many C codebases that are internally consistent but don't look much like textbook C. Sometimes C is the best choice even when it's less convenient.