Whats the deal with destructors?
A destructor gives an object its last rites. Destructors are used to release any resources allocated by the object. E.g., class Lock might lock a semaphore, and the destructor will release that semaphore. The most common example is when the constructor uses new, and the destructor uses delete. Destructors are a “prepare to die” member function. They are often abbreviated “dtor”.
