hr> </blockquote> (The C++ Programming Language ... emoticons/icon_wink.gif -- ) This seems to imply that static local variables are NOT initialized before the start of main() (as static global ...

These brackets are a uniform C++11 notation to initialize variables (whether class instances or PODs --plain old data types)*. This is complemented with initializer-list constructors, shown in Listing ...

C++ was created by Danish computer scientist ... something whose implementation is hidden. They are: the variable (which encapsulates the current value), the function (which encapsulates code ...