Calling another constructor (delegating or not) from a delegating constructor

[jvqpDjzh]

Is it possible (C++11) to call another constructor from the list of initializers of a delegating constructor? (I've tried, and it seems that we can't!)

Something like this:

class MyClass
{
     int x=0, y=0, z=0;//finally, they let us initialize the variables here!
     public:
          MyClass(int _x, int _y) : x(_x), y(_y), MyClass(0){}  
          MyClass(int _z) : z(_z){}
};

[Peter87]

You can't initialize members in the initializer list of a delegating constructor. Just think what would happen in your code if x was a string. First it would be constructed by the delegated constructor and then it would be constructed once again in the delegating constructor (with a different constructor).

[MiiNiPaa]

You can delegate work of initialization to another constuctor. So you cannot do anything else in initialization lists.
However there is workarounds. For example:

class MyClass
{
     int x=0, y=0, z=0;
     public:
          MyClass(int _x, int _y) : MyClass(x, y, 0){}  
          MyClass(int _z) :MyClass(0, 0, z){}
    private:
          MyClass(int _x, int _y, int _z) : x(_x), y(_y), z(_z) {}
};