There are 2 good reasons for using a copy constructor instead of the constructor passing all parameters :
- when you have a complex object with many attributes it is much simpler to use the copy constructor
- if you add an attribute to your class, you just change the copy constructor to take this new attribute into account instead of changing every occurence of the other constructor
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