\descref{sod_destroy}[function]{fun}.
\subsubsection{Teardown}
-Details of initialization are necessarily class-specific, but typically it
-involves setting the instance's slots to appropriate values, and possibly
-linking it into some larger data structure to keep track of it.
+Details of teardown are necessarily class-specific, but typically it
+involves releasing resources held by the instance, and disentangling it from
+any data structures it might be linked into.
Teardown is performed by sending the instance the @|teardown| message,
defined by the @|SodObject| class. The message returns an integer, used as a