Constructor

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Constructor \Con*struct"or\, n. [Cf. LL. constructor.]
     A constructer.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  constructor
       n : someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of
           a building) [syn: {builder}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  constructor
       
           1. In {functional programming} and {type
          theory}, one of the symbols used to create an object with an
          {algebraic data type}.
       
          2. A function provided by a {class} in {C++} and some other
          {object-oriented languages} to {instantiate} an object,
          i.e. to name it and initialise it.  The constructor function
          has the same name as the class.  A class may also have a
          {destructor} function to destroy objects of that class.
       
          (1994-10-20)