comp.lang.c++

On Feb 15, 5:27 pm, yeti wrote:

> I have few simple question.
> 1. Why does the constructor and destructor have same name as
> the class it belongs to ??

Because Stroustrup designed it that way. I suspect that the
main motivation at the time was just to avoid introducing new
keywords.

> 2. Why can't constructor and destructor return values ??

How could they? You can't call a constructor directly, and you
don't normally call the destructor directly. So even if they
did have a return value, you'd have no way of accessing it.

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