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. But NaN might be a good thing for all I know.. I rarely use floating-point so I'll stay out of that, but I'd like to have this fixed: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6303
