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[QUOTE="Jeff Schwab, post: 3450581"]
There's no special syntax for maps.  You do have a few options, though. 
  One is to initialize an array with the nicer syntax, then initialize 
the map from the array.

typedef std::map<type1, type2> map_type;
     typedef map_type::value_type pair_type;

template<typename T, std::size_t z>
     std::size_t size(T const (&a)[z]) {
         return z;
     }

int main() {
         pair_type initializers[] =
             { pair_type(key1, value1), pair_type(key2, value2) };
         map_type m(initializers, initializers + size(initializers));
     }

Another option is to create the map within a function, then return it by 
value.

map_type create_map() {
         map_type result;
         result.insert(pair_type(key1, value1));
         result.insert(pair_type(key2, value2));
         return result;
     }

int main() {
         map_type map = create_map();
     }

A third option is to let the map start out empty, then use a function to 
populate it.

void populate(map_type& m) {
         m.insert(pair_type(key1, value1));
         m.insert(pair_type(key2, value2));
     }

int main() {
         map_type m;
         populate(m);
     }
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