Why can't member variable be initialized?

[Marc G]

Last time I investigated was on september 22nd, one day after the release of draft n3126, when this change appeared on wikipedia's C++0x article.

That change was undone, see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...ldid=387105157

[monarch_dodra]

That was easy
Refer to the example in n3126 clause 12.6.2 paragraph 8.

Yeah, It was right under my nose and I didn't even see it.

Looking harder, it would appear this is called a "brace-or-equal-initializer". It's not described in a single place, but spread out all over the draft...

On a related topic, when you write "constructor() : a(), b()", that is called a "mem-initializer". I'm just glad I won't have to say "constructor initializer list" when I know very well an "initializer list" is something else.