For my new position, I need to improve my knowledge of the C++ programming language (which I did not use basically since 2010). So I have started reading the book Discovering Modern C++ by Peter Gottschling to get up to speed with, well, modern C++. In this post, I would like to talk about universal initialization (a.k.a. brace-initialization) that was introduced in C++11. The syntax for the universal initialization is the following: