Characteristics of Destructors

Characteristics of Destructors

• The destructor has the same name as that of the class prefixed by the tilde character ‘~’.

• The destructor cannot have arguments

• It has no return type

• Destructors cannot be overloaded i.e., there can be only one destructor in a class

• In the absence of user defined destructor, it is generated by the compiler

• The destructor is executed automatically when the control reaches the end of class scope to destroy the object

• They cannot be inherited