OOP / language design question

[Rene Pijlman]

cctv.star at gmail.com:
>I was wondering, why you always have to remember to call bases'
>constructors explicitly from the derived class constructor? Why hasn't
>this been enforced by the language?

Probably because the language doesn't know whether the subclass wants to
override its base class's constructor, or enhance it.

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René Pijlman