Destructor

In computer science a destructor is a method called when an instance of a class is deleted, before the memory is deallocated.

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1 Example

1.1 C++

2 Also see

Example

C++

class Foo
{
   // This is the prototype of the destructor
   ~Foo();
}
Foo::~Foo()
{
   // This is the implementation of the destructor
}
int main()
{
   Foo* foo = new Foo;
   // This is where the destructor is being called
   delete Foo;

   return 0;
}

Also see

Constructor (antonym).