When I passed in the window dimensions I expected to do it with parenthesis.
Character Knight(WindowDimensions[0], WindowDimensions[1]);
This ran and worked.
But when he did it, he used curly braces instead.
Character Knight{WindowDimensions[0], WindowDimensions[1]};
Can anyone offer more clarity here?
The top example looks like a method and the bottom example looks something like an object literal, if memory serves.
Because in the end, the braced initialization (bottom) actually calls the Constructor (top) in the background.
Both end up creating and initializing the Knight as a Character object. Braced initialization has the added benefit of forcing variables to be initialized to default values. Though when it comes to classes the benefit is not really seen.
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