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From: bjaspan@athena.mit.edu (Barr3y Jaspan)
Subject: Re: Constructor question
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|> > >> Can I call one constructor to class X explicitly from within another
|> > >> constructor to class X ?
|> 
|> > >No.
|> 
|> > Yes, by using operator=
|> 
|> Sorry, but still no.

Perhaps I don't understand the question (I don't recall the original posting),
but this sounds like it applies (from the last annotation in ARM, section
12.1, p. 267 in my copy):

"Calling a constructor from within a constructor is allowed, but often what it
does isn't what the user expected.  [code deleted]  Such code is sometimes
written by programmers who want to factor out the common parts of a set of
constructors ... the way to factor out initialization code is to have an
explicit initialization function that is not a constructor."

-- 
Barr3y Jaspan, bjaspan@mit.edu
Watchmaker Computing