How to call an overloaded constructors in C#

Robert Ludwig

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20 Sep 2011CPOL

All three of the Something methods could be replaced with a single definition of the form:public Something(string name = "default", index = -1){ myName = name; myIndex= index; DoStuff();}

All three of the Something methods could be replaced with a single definition of the form:

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public Something(string name = "default", index = -1)
{
    myName = name;
    myIndex= index;

    DoStuff();
}

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Hi Robert, in this scenario you are correct, but sometimes you may still need overloaded constructors and so using defaults like you have may not always work, or you have to duplicate the default value in multiple places which introduces human error if you have to change the default value.