On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote: > > You explained exactly why I think the delphi docs are wrong. > > If delphi wanted to do things correctly and consistently they would simply > say 'everything is initialized to 0'. Period. > > Simple, consistent, easy. > > The above is a kludge. > > The point of view of 'Pascal' is that you should consider every variable > uninitialized. > > Simple, straightforward. > Allow me to yet again to single out this philosophy of strongly preferring abstract purity to concrete user experience. This is IMHO a significant contributing factor of Pascal decline. I would not argue this specific point (although I quite agree with Ondrej), I just want to remind that the cost in terms of diminishing userbase is real, and that makes me sad.
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