Why can I not call my class's constructor from an instance of that class in C++?

Question

When can an object of a class call the destructor of that class, as if it\'s a regular function? Why can\'t it call the constructor of the same class, as one of its regular

Answer 1

Another way to think about the restriction is that a constructor is not just another function. Consider its definition: unlike other functions, it has no return value, and it may have an initializer list. That it just happens to have most of the syntax of a function is kind of a coincidence; it really exists only for the purpose of initializing a new instance of an object.