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    lots of up-votes. I will stop immediately. thank you. Commented Jan 16, 2013 at 18:09
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    In addition, you can't name constructors differently to explain your purpose, readers have to infer it from the parameters. Overloading the constructor this way makes it much harder to understand. Commented Jan 16, 2013 at 18:15
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    "Having multiple function names that do the same thing..." - for a 'good' time, look at Ruby's classes String Hash Array File. Commented Jan 16, 2013 at 18:42
  • +1. You are dealing with developers/programmers. Microsoft idea of "user is monkey", does not work here. Commented Jan 17, 2013 at 7:00
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    @ZacharyYates Lack of "constructor names" can be worked around by exposing a static construction methods instead. This is a standard practice in Java, although not so much in C++. Commented Jan 21, 2013 at 6:17