On Friday, 20 April 2012 at 09:55:04 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
It's funny, I once argued strongly in favor of this *against*
Walter. I lost
of course ;) IIRC, his argument was that it would require
perfect flow
analysis and that's too difficult and expensive. My argument
was that it
didn't need to be, and perhaps even *shouldn't* be, perfect. He
felt that
would end up being a PITA with false errors, and I felt that C#
demonstrates
it isn't a PITA. Meh, I don't want to re-debate it though.
Yeah, I am aware of Walter's previous statements on this. I think
it's ridiculous that he wants his language inferior to virtually
every one of its modern contemporaries in this aspect based on
implementation issues. I like D's well-defined
default-initialization and I think it's great for global storage,
TLS and class/struct fields, but I think local variables require
a hybrid approach. It doesn't matter if the implementation isn't
perfect; it's better than the alternative, which is our current
abysmal situation.
