Oh yes, don't forget RAII as I did! (The name is super-awkward, but the concept is mind-blowingly awesome when it fully sinks in.)

Other languages have begun to pick up on this, think of Python's with-Statements, and C#'s using (x = SomeClass())-blocks. but C++ still makes it easier to take advantage of this feature.

Unless you play around with setjmp/longjmp. But to do that, you have to be ... special enough to not care about deterministic invocation of destructors in the first place. ;-)