Is initializing with “var{args}” a new feature of C++0x, or merely syntactic sugar?

Question

I was reading the C++0x faq and came across the section detailing initializer lists. The examples were mostly variations of:

vector vi = { 1, 2,          


        

Answer 1

One is uniform initialization, and the other is initializer lists. They are two different things, although as you can see, they can produce similar syntax.

vector vk{2};

is a uniform initialization- the other two are initializer lists.