Explicit Type Conversion and Multiple Simple Type Specifiers

Question

To value initialize an object of type T, one would do something along the lines of one of the following:

T x = T();
T x((T()));

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Answer 1

I posted this question to comp.lang.c++.moderated.

Daniel Krügler of the C++ standards committee agreed with the interpretation that unsigned int is a combination of simple type specifiers, and is not itself a simple type specifier.

Concerning the caption of table 7 referenced by Jerry Coffin, Krügler says:

I agree that the header of Table 7 (which is Table 9 in the most recent draft N3000) is somewhat misleading, but the preceeding text in [dcl.type.simple]/2 looks very clear to me, when it says:

Table 7 summarizes the valid combinations of simple-type-specifiers and the types they specify."

(I apologize it took me so long to post this back here from the newsgroup; it completely slipped my mind)