#destructors

0:00:00 — "Wild Ist Die Welt" (Edit) by Mona Mur (1983)

0:00:22 — "Into the 80's" by The Now (1979)

0:03:48 — DJ

0:08:17 — "Fuck Art Let's Dance" by The Name (1980)

0:10:58 — "Love Like Glass" by Destructors (1984)

0:13:17 — "Matador" by Xmal Deutschland (1987)

0:17:07 — "Hope This Plane Never Lands" by Tangerine (1990)

0:19:56 — DJ

0:27:30 — "The Phoenix Family Protection Plan" by Sudden Sway (1988)

0:31:09 — "Solo - Store Detective Man" by Sudden Sway (1988)

0:33:42 — "Trisha Listen" by Sudden Sway (1988)

0:37:00 — "Faerie Liquidateur (League of the Violated)" by Sudden Sway (1990)

0:41:45 — DJ

0:46:42 — "Jane's Third Party" by A Sudden Sway (1981)

0:49:36 — "Blut Ist Liebe" by Xmal Deutschland (1982)

0:52:33 — "Cambodia" by Five Go Mad in Europe (1984)

0:55:53 — "My Lie" by Mona Mur & Die Mieter (1982)

0:58:32 — DJ

1:04:40 — "Incubus Succubus II" by Xmal Deutschland (1983)

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Published in Sounds, 22nd May 1982 THE SPECIAL DUTIES ‘Police State’ (Rondelet) Let’s get right to the point, I don’t pop my cork for every band I see, but the Special Duties are an exception to the rule. “77 in ’82” is the Duties’ slogan and it says it all. There’s no pretensions or fancy philosophising with these guys, they just slam in with the force of an SAS raid and whip the audience into…

  This suggests that he is gaining revenge on the occupation of Architecture because his father was sacked from it; he wants to destruct the house because it is a quite expensive, luxurious and a “credit” to architecture. He may also be unhappy and down beat with the current situation of the world and is bored so he needs to do something. He may simply just be jealous of “Old Misery” because he…

like constructors, destructors have no return type

they can’t have parameters

they are named ~Foo

destructors are automatically called once the object goes out of scope

C++ provides default destructors that delete many things automatically

destructors are called with the keyword delete (e.g. delete foo)

only objects constructed with new can be deleted via delete (i.e. objects on the heap, not on the stack)

a class’s destructor should delete its members, if they were constructed with new

classes from the STL automatically call their elements’ destructors when they are removed from the container (e.g. by std::list.remove())

this only works if the actual objects are placed inside the container - not if it’s a container of pointers!

delete [] deletes arrays (e.g. delete [] myArray)

destructors can be used to perform last actions, like writing to a log