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Constructor and destructor

Dear Sir,
I want to know :

Why hould constructor be public member of class.

How are constructor and destructors called explictly. What is the difference between calling method for constructor and destructor. Is it possible for a constructor and destructor to call each other?

Thanks & Regards

Abhi
Mar 14 '07 #1
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Constructor needs to be public so that people who want to construct an instance of a class can see it....

As for calling method v constructor/destructor it depends what you mean. A method does something and retunrs a result, a Constructor creates an instance of a class (and returns itself) (and I'm not real familiar with destructors, but I would imagine that they do all the necessary clean up to get rid of an instance of a class).

I would imagine it is possible for a Constructor and Destructor to call each other, but I can't really imagine why you might want to do that.
Mar 14 '07 #2

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