> I think this semantic has been the same the whole time Yes; When you provide any of the "standard" ctors the compiler goes hands off leaving it entirely up t

> I think this semantic has been the same the whole time Yes; When you provide any of the "standard" ctors the compiler goes hands off leaving it entirely up to you to do the calls to any of the base ctors. The article was just Raymond being surprised since as somebody else has already pointed out the api name is a bit of a misnomer.