C++ Primer Plus

Constructors and Destructors in Review

Now that we’ve gone through a few examples of constructors and destructors, you might want to pause and assimilate what has passed. To help you, here is a summary of these methods.

A constructor is a special class member function that’s called whenever an object of that class is created. A class constructor has the same name as its class, but through the miracle of function overloading, you can have more than one constructor with the same name, provided that each has its own signature, or argument list. Also a constructor has no declared type. Usually a constructor is used to initialize members of a class object. Your initialization should match the constructor’s argument list. For example, suppose the ...