why constructor has not return type?

Question

Please tell why constructor has not return type.

Vulpes · Answer

Technically the return type of a constructor is 'void' and if you look at the underlying MSIL for a constructor (.ctor in MSIL) you'll see that a void return type is actually specified. However as it's always void the C# language designers decided that it should be omitted altogether which is consistent with practice in other object oriented languages such as Java or C++. Apart from when they're 'chained' together instance constructors are always used in conjunction with the 'new' operator and it's this operator which allocates the memory for the instance and returns a reference to it after it's been initialized by the constructor.

Francis · Answer

Constructors are usually used to initialize the member variable of a class and this is the primary purpose of constructor.So there is no need of returning anything from there.