Yes, local allocations are a pain to maintain. But it doesn't have to be that way. You can always attach allocations to a structure and have them freed in a cen

Yes, local allocations are a pain to maintain. But it doesn't have to be that way. You can always attach allocations to a structure and have them freed in a central place. Personally I'd rather think about what this code should do and would then think how to write in C. The big difference with C++ is the implicit stuff it does - RAII and exceptions. I have a distaste for those, and while I agree it often makes code shorter, the code also becomes more script like, it's putting some important things under the rug. For plain C, there are very elegant ways to improve most code by thinking more globally.