Question

I have recently found out that no argument constructor and multiple argument constructor cannnot call each other in turns. What is the underlying reason of this limitation? Some might say that constructors are where resources are initialised. So they must not be called recursively. I want to know if this is the only reason or not. Functions/methods/procedures can be called recursively. Why not constructors?

Answer 1

The answer lies in the fact that the call to another constructor is the first line of any constructor and hence your if condition to break out of recursion will never be executed and hence stack overflow.