Thread: this returned destructor called...

Hi!

While testing a project I noticed a weird behaviour.
Here is the draft class:

Code:

Class MyClass
{
public:
MyClass();
~MyClass();
MyClass self() { return *this; }
}

And here comes the problem:

Code:

MyClass anObj;
anObj.self();
// PROBLEM HERE - after returning from self() function, de destructor of MyClass gets called
// do something

If I change the self() to return a reference:

Code:

MyClass& self() { return *this; }

then the destructor isn't called.

Do you have a good explanation for this one?