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Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:

> glen herrmannsfeldt a �crit :
> 
>> It might be that arrays are initialized to zero when created,
>> but that is more like C's malloc().  (Well, calloc() I suppose.)
>> Automatic variables, which are scalars, are not initialized
>> to zero automatically.

> My "Java Language Specification" say in 4.5.5:
> "Each class variable, instance variable, or array component is 
> initialized with a /default value/ when it is created:"

> and then goes on explaining that numeric types are initialized to 0, 
> boolean to false, and reference types to null.

That leaves ordinary local variables that must be initialized.

-- glen