When will MS solve the C2797 error ?

Question

Do you see any different (except the variable type) between the 2 class constructors below ?
Person(string first, string second) : firstname{ first }, secondname{ second }{};
Person(char* first, char* second) : firstname{ first }, secondname{ second }{};
The 1st one which use string STL won't compile with C2797 error. But if you change the curly bracket to parentheses (or wrap the curly bracket by parentheses), it can compile.
Person(string first, string second) : firstname( first ), secondname( second ){};
Person(string first, string second) : firstname({ first }), secondname({ second }){};
This problem not yet solve in VS2013 update 4. Or MS prefer C++98 style ?

Answer 1

Hi DHLao,
Thanks for posting in MSDN forum. About compiler error C2797.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn793970.aspx
Yes, I can reproduce this issue on my side event with VS 2015 preview. From this blog, we can see C2797 will continue to be present in all future versions of Visual Studio 2013.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/08/19/the-future-of-non-static-data-member-initialization.aspx
Then I find this, it wrote that the compiler error C2797 is planned to be completely fixed in 2015 RTM.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/11/17/c-11-14-17-features-in-vs-2015-preview.aspx?PageIndex=3
So let's wait for the VS 2015 and see the result. Hope this helps some.
Best regards,
Shu Hu
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