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Document number: N3912

Date: 2014-02-24

Auto and braced-init-lists, continued

by Ville Voutilainen

Excerpt:

It was reported (with emphasis) by Mikael Kilpeläinen that init-captures deduce types the same way as auto does. This means that direct-initialization using braces in an init-capture will create an initializer_list. The EWG found this harmful, and is proposing a compromise change that differs from N3681 in the sense that direct-initialization using braces would not yield initializer_lists, whereas copy-initialization using braces would. Example: ...