What do braces after C# new statement do?

Question

Given the code below, what is the difference between the way position0 is initialized and the way position1 is initialized? Are they equivalent?

Answer 1

They are equivalent, apart from one being easier to read than the other one.

Also consider the case when you want to pass the new object along to somewhere else:

var aList = new List();
aList.Add( new Position() { x=3, y=4 } );