While browsing some code online I've come across the following:
~Disposable()
{
Dispose(false);
}
This doesn't produce any compiler errors, is the '~' doing anything in particular or why is it there?
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/66x5fx1b.aspx – Jurica Smircic May 14 '13 at 13:31
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it is destructor. syntactically same as c++ – Manish Mishra May 14 '13 at 13:31
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1@ManishMishra It's not a destructor, and they make sure to not call it a destructor because it's very, *very* different from C++. – Sam Harwell May 14 '13 at 13:32
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It's a _finalizer_ in C#, not a desctructor as in C++. – John Willemse May 14 '13 at 13:34
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@280Z28: Unfortunatelly, they are called destructors. See the link posted by jure. – Daniel Hilgarth May 14 '13 at 13:34
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1Sorry if it was a duplicate, but I swear google wasn't returning anything when searching for it. – SOfanatic May 14 '13 at 13:34
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1@SOfanatic: Its hard to search for '~' ;-) – Daniel Hilgarth May 14 '13 at 13:35
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@SOfanatic We believe you ... once :-) – jAC May 14 '13 at 13:37
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4@DanielHilgarth It's a mistake on MSDN. ECMA-334 §17.12 Includes the following note at the top: "Note: In the previous version of this standard, what is now referred to as a "finalizer" was called a "destructor". Experience has shown that the term "destructor" caused confusion and often resulted to incorrect expectations, especially to programmers knowing C++..." – Sam Harwell May 14 '13 at 13:37
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@280Z28: Ah, that's nice. Someone should file a bug report for the MSDN. – Daniel Hilgarth May 14 '13 at 13:40
