Good point, that sentence was more confusing than anything else, I’ve removed it. Thanks for pointing that out, Eric.

Regarding:

“Anyway delegating constructors only work for… constructors. To my
knowledge there is no such thing as delegating functions or methods.”

I’m not sure what you have in mind. To me this feature already exists, you can just call another overload from your function, I do not think we need any new syntax for delegating the work to another function (be it an overload or not):

void drawRectangle(int width, int height) {
drawRectangle(width, height, Color::Black);
}

Constructors have special syntax and before delegating constructors were available, it was not possible to do the same (except by calling an “init” function from the body, which is not so nice and not always possible, or even worst using a macro for the initializer list).

Regards,
Eric