Explicit initialization of struct/class members

Question

struct some_struct{
    int a;
};
some_struct n = {};

n.a will be 0 after this;

I know this braces form of initialization is inherited from C a

Answer 1

It is standard in C++, it isn't in C.

The syntax was introduced to C++, because some objects can't be initialized with 0, and there would be no generic way to perform value-initialization of arrays.