Experts !! I know this question is one of the lousy one , but still I dared to open my mind , hoping I would learn from all.

I was trying some examples as part of my routine and did this horrible thing, I called the constructor of the class from destructor of the same class.

I don't really know if this is ever required in real programming , I cant think of any real time scenarios where we really need to call functions/CTOR in our destructor. Usually , destructor is meant for cleaning up.

If my understanding is correct, why the compiler doesn't complain ? Is this because it is valid for some good reasons ? If so what are they ?

I tried on Sun Forte, g++ and VC++ compiler and none of them complain about it.

using namespace std;
class test{
   public:
    test(){
       cout<<"CTOR"<<endl;
     }


~test() {cout<<"DTOR"<<endl;
 test();
 }};