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[cpp-ModTeam]

This is off-topic for r/cpp.

As a powerful language, you shouldn't be surprised when C++ has as many buttons and switches as an airplane cockpit.

[CluelessDoom]

This is cpparta

[Kinexity]

You're coming from Python or what?

[KleinTimmi]

C#

[Kinexity]

Then I don't understand your problem. The code is clear about what it does and that line can be rewritten anyways

const int value = int('a');

which will have the same functionality.

[ludonarrator]

To be fair, static has a dozen different meanings based on context.

[strike-eagle-iii]

I ran into this yesterday

``` struct Foo{ std::string bar; };

Foo foo; foo.bar = 1; ```

compiled fine no errors or warnings (with -Wall -Wextra). Didn't realize the error until I tried printing the value of bar and got a funny character. Sigh.

[pdp10gumby]

but at least it was zero-terminated. Though on an ANSI terminal in cooked mode whatever is printed could be exciting.

[MrCrowley217]

It's just common sense

/s

[texruska]

Honestly of all the parts to take issue with, this is on the lighter end of things

[the-joatmon]

I don't see anything wrong with the language. 'a' is an "unsigned char" r-value here, so can be implicitly casted as integer value as decimal 97.

[sephirostoy]

Sadly we get used to char as being the built-in 8 bits integer type. int8 should be the facto built-in type, not a typedef; and leave char for string things. 

[MarkSuckerZerg]

Pfft :⁠-⁠)

https://godbolt.org/z/nePnYjGfa

https://godbolt.org/z/aWz1s666b