On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 8:21 AM Maciej Cencora via Std-Proposals <std-proposals@lists.isocpp.org> wrote:

Yes, I am proposing to make 'auto x{1};' ill formed because such form is ambiguous depending on how many elements you pass in braced init list (and it differs in C++11).

Fixing the fall-out is trivial (either use 'auto x = 1;' or 'std::initializer_list x = { 1 };') and compatible with C++17.

Isn't simplification of initialization rules a good enough argument?

Aah, I forgot to write, I propose to unify direct-init and copy-init as well:

T a = b;

T a(b);

In C++17 these will do exactly the same thing (minus explicit constructor).

Yeah, but "minus explicit constructor" is kind of significant. What you're proposing is effectively to get rid of the explicit keyword.

The argument you have to make is that explicit adds no value. I, for one, like that neither

vector<string> names() { return 3; }

nor

void timeout(std::chrono::seconds)

timeout(42);

compile today.

Barry