[mskslal]

Agreed. In Go, defers accumulate and are all called at the end of a function, which I believe is a mistake (but there are practical uses for it). I think it would be much more fitting for C just to have the defer happen at the end of the scope. It would be very easy for compiler devs to implement it too--that above example could be done just by taking the defer block and pasting it at the end of the scope, with zero overhead. More complex control flow can be implemented with a simple goto.