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by einpoklum 1265 days ago
You are absolutely correct. It turns out "copy initialization is the formal term used. It's kind of stupid IMHO, since it may not be initialization by copying or using a copy of anything, but:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/copy_initializati...

So I half-take-back my comment.