One reason of overloading a constructor is to provide flexibility, allowing you to choose the most appropriate constructor in the specific instance.
Another is to allow both initialized an uninitialized objects to be declared.you might want to overload a constructor so that dynamic arrays can be allocated.
Githiari answered the question on February 4, 2018 at 12:55
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