[cfe-dev] Feature/opinion request

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-10-12 18:48, Matthieu Monrocq wrote:

> And I find this annoying. I would have preferred that they decided that
> - (2**(N-1)) be a sentinel value, since anyway it's a loosy value as you
> cannot get its positive counterpart... But a "default" value ? Then it's
> impossible to decide whether it's intentional or not that this default
> is returned.

The philosophy of D is, (memory) safe by default, possible to write some 
extra code to get it fast(er).

You can always specify that you don't what a variable to be default 
initialized:

int a = void;

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/Jacob Carlborg