title: What does it mean to destroy a class
body: <p>Someone used the phrase "destroy a class" and I was skeptical that it meant anything at all, and decided to do a search and it looks like destroying classes seems to be an actual concept, as shown in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12536845/how-to-properly-destroy-a-class">How to properly destroy a class</a></p>
  
  <p>What does it mean to destroy a class?<br>
  How would I destroy a class in Ruby? (if that makes sense at all)</p>