Some interesting discussion is happening at Raymond Chen's blog, “The Old New Thing” in relation to C++ and C#. Raymond recently wrote an article on “What is purecall?”. In the comments at Raymond Chen's blog for “What is purecall?”, I commented / questioned

  1. C# is derived from Delphi.
  2. “Why is knowing the object's identity during construction important?”

Centaur pointed out that constructors served as initializers. M Knight said that “Delphi constructors are really initializers”. And then, Henk Devos pointed out that “In reality it means Delphi does not have real constructors”.

Take a look there...