Calling a parameterless constructor from a parametered one

[Fred Labrosse <ffl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

Could somebody tell me why the commented out constructor in the attached code 
doesn't compile (it doesn't make sense to do that in this example, but it 
would do in some code I'm currently writing ;-).

TIA,

Fred

#include <iostream>

template <class T, T defaultVal>
class baseClass
{
public:
   baseClass()
      : theVal(defaultVal)
   {
   }

   baseClass(T val)
      : theVal(val)
   {
   }
//    baseClass(T val)
//       : baseClass()
//    {
//       theVal = val;
//    }

   void printVal()
   {
      std::cout << theVal << std::endl;
   }

private:
   T theVal;
};

class intClass : public baseClass<int, 5>
{
public:
   intClass()
      : baseClass<int, 5>()
   {
   }

   intClass(int val)
      : baseClass<int, 5>(val)
   {
   }
};

main()
{
   intClass a(10);
   a.printVal();

   baseClass<int,1>b;
   b.printVal();
}