Why does this call the default constructor?

Question

struct X
{
    X()    { std::cout << \"X()\\n\";    }
    X(int) { std::cout << \"X(int)\\n\"; }
};

const int answer = 42;

int main()
{
    X(answer);
         


        

Answer 1

If you want to declare a variable of the type X, you should do it this way:

X y(answer);