I'd like to suggest a new feature: "array element initializers".

If you have a member variable which is an array,
it would be nice to initialize specific elements in the
array, as shown in the following code:

class A
{
    A();
    A(int);
};

class B
{
    A array[10];

    // Initialize specific array elements
    // Remaing elements naturally receive automatic initialization
    B() : array[3]( 6 ), array[9]()
    {
    }

};

The array indices would have to be distinct sequences of constants
limited to the array bounds. Otherwise you might end up initializing
the same thing twice (e.g. if i == 0 then [1][2] and [i + 1][2 - i] would
conflict.).



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