JdBP>>         char ch ;
 JdBP>>         char str[2] = { ch } ;
 TH> Not at initilation time, at runtime
I don't understand your objection.  My only guess is that you aren't familiar 
with this particular part of the C++ language, and are erroneously assuming 
that objects with automatic storage duration are initialised at program 
startup.  They are not.
The semantics of Standard C++ *require* that automatic storage objects be 
initialised every time that execution passes through the statement.  In this 
case, str[] is initialised with the current value of `ch' and a zero.
This idiom is a very useful shorthand for those occasions where otherwise one 
would, as you did, follow an array or structure declaration of automatic 
storage with a succession of assignment statements.
See sections 8.5 and 8.5.1 (especially paragraph 7) of the C++ Standard.
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