I have a `static const` vector of strings. I want to initialize it in C++11.

My code:

// Settings.h
class Settings
{
	public:
		static const std::vector<std::wstring>	TITLES;
}

//Settings.cpp
const std::vector<std::wstring> Settings::TITLES = {L"Disk", L"System", L"Appearance"};

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I'm getting this error:

error C2552: 'TITLES' : non-aggregates cannot be initialized with initializer list

Intellisense in Visual Studio 2012 reports the error as:

Error: initialization with '{...}' is not allowed for object of type "const std::vector<std::wstring, std::allocator<std::wstring>>"

How do I initialize it correctly?

std::wstring titles_init[3] = {L"Disk", L"System", L"Appearance"};
const std::vector<std::wstring> Settings::TITLES(titles_init, titles_init+3);

I decided to use "std::array". It doesn't differ from "std::vector" since I won't be (able to) adding (or removing) elements to it.

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// Settings.h
class Settings
{
	public:
		static const std::array<std::wstring, 3> TITLES;
}

//Settings.cpp
const std::array<std::wstring, 3> Settings::TITLES = {L"Disk", L"System", L"Appearance"};

std::array was actually introduced in TR1. But yes, MSVC 2012's coverage of C++11 features is incomplete.

std::array was actually introduced in TR1. But yes, MSVC 2012's coverage of C++11 features is incomplete.

This is useful to know definitely