What’s the difference between Radio r = Radio(“PSR”, 100.8) and Radio(“PSR”, 100.8)?

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Radio r = Radio("PSR", 100.8); is copy initialization while Radio r("PSR", 100.8); is direct initialization.

C++17

From C++17 due to mandatory copy elison both are the equivalent.

Radio r = Radio("PSR", 100.8); //from C++17 this is same as writing Radio r("PSR", 100.8);

Prior C++17

But prior to C++17, the first case Radio r = Radio("PSR", 100.8); may result in the creation of a temporary using which r is copy initialized. This is because prior to C++17, there was non-mandatory copy elison.

Another thing to note is that if you were to write:

type name(); //this is a function declaration

the above is a declaration for a function named name which has the return type of type and has 0 parameters.

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