Address white_house{
.street = "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW",
.city = "Washington",
.state = "District of Columbia",
.zip = 20500,
};
For me this is the most important initialization in C that helps with clarity so much, I used mostly structs to have function parameters intialized like thisHowever C++ had at time no default initialization for unmentioned fields, so in 2017 I had to remove it when converting the code to C++
Designated initializers were unofficially supported by GCC (and clang IIANM) since around when C++11 was supported. See:
https://godbolt.org/z/3aKaa7dnM
only if you specifically ask to get an error, would you actually get it.