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		tines on Jan 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Initialization in C++ is Seriously Bonkers You ended the quote early, and my sentence went beyond the article. I said: > that's what you get with C++: very fine control of program semantics, benefit being expressive libraries. It's not gratuitous because you can't remove much of it without losing power or expressiveness (and still remain a C). Also, by complex I didn't mean complicated.

esrauch on Jan 6, 2019 [–]

It doesn't really seem necessary for "A a = A{}" and "A a = {}" to be different things to have power and expressiveness. It really seems like uniform initialization covered just one arbitrary case while making other cases even less uniform.

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