Deconstructors not mentioned

[OJacot-Descombes]

Chapter "14.1 General" says:

A class is a data structure that may contain [...], function members (methods, properties, events, indexers, operators, instance constructors, finalizers, and static constructors), [...]

Deconstructors are not mentioned explicitly. Are they covered by "methods" or should they be explicitly listed as function members?

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[BillWagner]

Thanks for reaching out @OJacot-Descombes

In the updates for C# 5.0, the committee decided to standardize on the term "finalizer" rather than "destructor".

We found that using both terms, when the CLI spec used "finalizer" exclusively caused confusion.

I'll close this as answered.

[OJacot-Descombes]

I am not talking about finalizers (not destructor) but deconstructors like
public void Deconstruct(out string fname, out string mname, out string lname)
(The terms are confusing and used differently in different languages)

[BillWagner]

Thanks for the correction @OJacot-Descombes I misread it earlier.

The standards committee is finalizing C# 6.0 for ECMA. (Yes, we know and we're working to catch up).

There's a draft PR for version 7 that will include deconstruction at dotnet/csharpstandard#63. The relevant clause is https://github.com/dotnet/csharpstandard/pull/63/files#diff-d9d678d0b42d3c668ebd64159dadfd6188361121feca8fb94fddf8816433cd14R5459

(I'll keep the closed, as the work is already tracked for the C# 7.x standard.