Initialization with Curly Brackets

[AlanB]

I saw this line of code in a program and although it looks simple I don't understand the reason behind initializing with curly brackets.

  //Default Constructor
  Person() = default;
  //Constructor
  Person(const string & name = {});

[jlb]

In this case it signifies a parameter with a default value of an empty string. The braces signify "uniform initialization" (actually assignment in this case).