CR>> Not necessarily although it does pose some problems with error 
CR>> handling (which you could do with exceptions). Your options are to 
 FA> I've been thinking about this for a while, is there a technical reason
 FA> why constructors are not able to return a value ?
because they either already return `this' through a `new' statement,
either they return `*this' through a non-dynamic use, or either is part
of a non-expression.
1.      Chose * blah = new Chose(1,2,3);
2.      Chose blah = Chose (1,2,3);
3.      Chose blah(1,2,3);
these are the 3 allowed things, and since they only differ by their
returns, that stuff is handled secretly by the compiler and it's not
even called overloading.
matju
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