Answer from Jonathan Caves regarding "Tale of the __dtor method and the delete operator"

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Thanks Jonathan!

For Whidbey we have changed the name of the destructor and constructor to {dtor} and {ctor} – this is so people cannot do the following:

class X
{
public:
      X(int data) : m_data(data)
{
}

      ~X()
{
}

      void mf()
{
}

   private:
int m_data ;
} ;

int main()
{
X x(1);

      x.__dtor(); 

      x.mf();

      x.__ctor(1);
x.__ctor(2);
x.__ctor(3);
}