Why are constructors not inherited in java?

Question

I am a beginner in java programming language, recently I have studied that constructors can not be inherited in java, Can anyone please explain why<

Answer 1

• A constructor may only be called with new. It cannot be called as a method.
• The constructor name is identical to the class name.

So inheritance is practically not possible as such. However in a construct one might call other constructors.

• In the same class using this(...);
• Of the extended class using super(...);

Example

class A {
    A() { }          // Constructor
    A(int a) { }     // Constructor
    A(boolean c) { } // Constructor
}
class B extends A {
    B() {
        this(3, 7);
    }
    B(int a) {
        super();
    }
    B(String b) {
        super(7);
    }
    B(int a, int c) { // Calls super() implicitly
    }
}
A a = new B(8):

There unfortunately is no possibility to use A's constructor for a boolean:

B b = new B(true): // ERROR

The language designes could have implemented such a thing as:

Generate for every public constructor in the base class, a constructor with the same signature if such a constructor is not defined already. Call super with the same parameters. Call this() if there is a default constructor.

That seems a bit bloating the code. And is not simply a pointer in a virtual method table, by which method inheritance/overriding works.