When an object is destroyed, a special method called the destructor is called. This method has the name of the class prefixed with a ~ symbol and it does not return a value.
If the object is an automatic variable, on the stack, then it will be destroyed when the variable goes out of scope. When an object is passed by value, a copy is made on the called function's stack and the object will be destroyed when the called function completes. Furthermore, it does not matter how the function completes, whether an explicit call to return or reaching the final brace, or if an exception is thrown; in all of these cases, the destructor is called. If there are multiple objects in a function, the destructors are called in the reverse ...
