No. Constructors initialise objects and, by definition, must be able to modify the member variables. Uninitialised members are a disaster waiting to happen even without a constructor declared const! Thankfully, the compiler won't permit a const constructor.
Yes.
True - A C++ constructor cannot return a value.
An implicit constructor call will always call the default constructor, whereas explicit constructor calls allow to chose the best constructor and passing of arguments into the constructor.
Anything declared as a constant.
Constant data and constant functions.
A constant is a variable that does not change. The correct term is constant variable.
A friend constructor is a constructor that is declared a friend of another class and that grants that constructor private access to the class in which it is declared a friend. Example: class Y { friend char* X::foo (int); // friend function friend X::X (char); // constructors can be friends friend X::~X(); // destructors can be friends }; For more information, see '11.3 Friends' in the current ISO C++ Standard.
A constructor is a method that fires when the object is instantiated. A friend function is a function that has special access to the object. They are two different types of things, and cannot be further differenced.
It cannot. Inheritance is a compile-time operation. Constructors are invoked at runtime at the point of instantiation.
There is no such thing as a constructor function in C++ (constructors have no return value, not even void, and cannot be called like regular functions). Constructors are invoked rather than called directly, either by declaring a static variable of the class type, or via the C++ new operator.
A constant object is one that, once initialized, never changes value.
C is not an object-oriented programming language so there is no friend keyword let alone friend constructors. In C++, however, constructors can be declared friends. Consider the following code where the class Y default constructor has private access to X::foo() because the Y::Y() constructor is explicitly declared a friend of class X. Note that Y must be defined before X can be defined, thus X must be forward declared. #include<iostream> class X; // fwd declaration class Y { public: Y() { X x; x.foo(); } // X::foo is private, but Y::Y() is a friend. }; class X { friend Y::Y(); // friend constructor private: void foo() {} };