Ok, so it seems the use of braces (use of "Uniform initialization syntax") in constructors is to reduce the ambiguity with declaring functions and declaring+ini

Ok, so it seems the use of braces (use of "Uniform initialization syntax") in constructors is to reduce the ambiguity with declaring functions and declaring+initializing variables. This wiki entry has more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse