I'm deliberately conflating linear layout of code with the flow of the program, because that's what makes it easier to read. Exit points other than } are typically easier to notice, and can conceptually link "special thing happens here that I should watch for" with that point in a programmer's head.

I want a warning at the } if you have created an object that is going to do something special at that point and nothing has been done to make it visible. Call your destructor explicitly as a reminder, unless doing so would be even worse (i.e. you built a dozen of these objects in the same scope), in which case, put a single-line comment at the } and another at the line that turns off the warnings.

But as I said before, this is a stylistic thing, and I imagine it's not really worth getting into a big scuffle over it.

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