TITLE: What do contstructors return?

PROBLEM:  ???

Finally, the ARM says that the constructor is not true a callable function
which has no return type, yet cfront allows:

   Object(3).doSomething()

which implies that constructors *DO* return values (i.e., the object being
constructed,) and that it returns an lvalue.
 

RESPONSE: pkturner@world.std.com (Prescott K Turner)

Here, you've made the common error of mistaking Object(3) for a function
call, when it's actually an explicit conversion (ARM 5.2.3).


RESPONSE: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us (Mark Terribile), 16 Aug 92

This is true, but perhaps not quite complete.  If the constructor took
several arguments, you could still use it:

		x += Complex( alpha, ( alpha + 1 ) / beta );

Thus expression are permitted beyond what conversions alone allow.

I somewhere saw this construct called a `value builder' and I like
the term.