Why can’t I initialize a reference in an initializer list with uniform initialization?

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Yes, its a bug. This is something new and was voted in the working paper in February 2012 (link).

Nicol Bolas makes a good point in that gcc is actually the conforming compiler according to the FDIS approved C++11 standard because the changes to the working paper were made after that.

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