What Is a Curly-Brace Enclosed List If Not an intializer_list?

It is an braced-init-list. A braced-init-list existed before std::initializer_list and is used to initialize aggregates. int arr[] = {1,2,3,4,5}; The above used a braced-init-list to initialize the array, no std::initializer_list is created. On the other hand when you do std::vector<int> foo = {1,2,3,4,5}; foo is not an aggregate so the braced-init-list is used to create … Read more

Curly Brackets in Arrow Functions

The pair of braces forms a block, containing a list of statements. You need to use a return statement explicitly to make the function return something: (one) => { return oneTodo(one, action); // ^^^^^^ } If you omit the braces, the arrow function has a concise body, which consists solely of a single expression whose … Read more

bash functions: enclosing the body in braces vs. parentheses

Why are braces used by default to enclose the function body instead of parentheses? The body of a function can be any compound command. This is typically { list; }, but three other forms of compound commands are technically allowed: (list), ((expression)), and [[ expression ]]. C and languages in the C family like C++, … Read more

SyntaxError: not a chance — What is this error?

You have found an easter egg in Python. It is a joke. It means that delimiting blocks by braces instead of indentation will never be implemented. Normally, imports from the special __future__ module enable features that are backwards-incompatible, such as the print() function, or true division. So the line from __future__ import braces is taken … Read more

How do I escape curly-brace ({}) characters in a string while using .format (or an f-string)?

You need to double the {{ and }}: >>> x = ” {{ Hello }} {0} ” >>> print(x.format(42)) ‘ { Hello } 42 ‘ Here’s the relevant part of the Python documentation for format string syntax: Format strings contain “replacement fields” surrounded by curly braces {}. Anything that is not contained in braces is … Read more

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