[TheDong]

In many languages invented since c that have errors as values, you can use something akin to a specialized monad to sequence things which may fail together.

For example, in rust you could use:

    let res1 = w.Write(...)?;
    let res2 = w.Write(res1)?;

In haskell, you can use do notation or monad binding to do a similar thing.

Of course C doesn't have a good type system that allows this sort of thing; it was created before such type systems were well known.

I would expect any modern language to at least recognize that there are good ways to sequence and compose types.