On Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 12:48:01 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 4/14/12, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote:
Having a variable not initialized is a common source of bugs.
I'm going to argue that this was true for C/C++ but is much
less true
for D. One benefit of having integrals initialized to 0 is that
you
now have a defined default that you can rely on (just as you
can rely
on pointers being null by default). Personally I find this to
be a big
win in productivity. If the language/runtime does something
defined
for me then I can focus on more important things.
Amen! This is exactly what I'm trying to get at. The compiler
provides defaults as a convince feature (mostly) so that there's
no garbage and so values are reliable. It's incredibly
inconvenient at that point to have to remember to always
explicitly init one specific type..
This feels very natural in C#.
