Simple yet unanswered question

[hatim_ali]

Why constructors don't return values ??

[J Dunlap]

Because constructors are called when a new class is created, and therefore what is returned to the caller is a new instance of the class.

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[Giles]

As an extra to the previous answer, if you want to inicate that something in the constructor did not work as expected, throw an exception, that or provide an extra initialisation function for use after the object was constructed.

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