JMRyan wrote:
One thing that seems to have been missed in this discussion: minimize (or at least reduce from C++ levels) undefined behavior. That's the reason for auto-initialized variables. It's not to provide aconvenience for those times when the default values are what you want. It's so that failure to initialize will cause your program to fail in consistent and predictable ways. It is also the reason for providng clear() as an alternative to delete(). Dereferencing dangling pointers results in undefined behavior. Accessing a cleared object results in admittedly bad but at least defined behavior.
Good points.
