Why Does C++ Have So Many Ways to Initialize a Variable?
I'm returning to C++ after about 18 years and I'm confused by the different initialization forms. For example: int a; // default-initialization int b = 5; // copy-initialization…
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Why does C++ have so many different ways to initialize a variable?
After coming back to C++ following about 18 years away, I ran into the five commonly discussed initialization forms and found the distinctions surprisingly confusing: int a; //…