Too many initializers for Array error

Question

I have implemented following structures:

struct Point {
    int x,y;
};

struct Array {
    Point elem[3];
};

Could you explain why I'm getting an error:

error: too many initializers for 'Array'

when I use following construction?:

Array points2 {{1,2},{3,4},{5,6}};

Answer 1

You need more braces, since you're initialising objects within an array within a class:

Array points2 { { {1,2},{3,4},{5,6}}};
              ^ ^ ^
              | | |
              | | array element
              | array
              class

Answer 2

You actually need one more set of braces like so:

Array points2 {{{1,2},{3,4},{5,6}}};

Working example

See this post for further explanation of when these extra braces are required. It is related to whether the container is an aggregate or not.