Mojo Academy · Lesson

Destruction and del

Clean up when a value's life ends.

Every Value Has an End

When a value is no longer needed, its life ends and Mojo destroys it. This is your chance to clean up what it owned. 🧹

Mojo calls a special method named __del__ to destroy a value. It runs automatically when the value goes out of scope.

fn __del__(owned self):
    pass