destructor
Noun
Meaning
A destroyer.
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A C++ object's destructor must be invoked implicitly (in the case of stack-bound variables) or explicitly to deallocate an object.
“I am excited about the opportunity to bring the word of my Lord Destructor into the homes of new potential followers,” bellowed Guntar Darkreeve, lead singer of Quarantine Massacre.
For example if you replace raw pointers with in the constructor, the destructor for will be called automatically if needed.
Not only is the time destructor ageing the Doctor and Sara, but also Kembel itself, which has turned into an arid wasteland.
The destructor executes synchronously just before the point in a program at which an object is deallocated.
When an object's retain count reaches zero, it is deallocated by a procedure similar to a C++ destructor.