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"James Rogers" <jimmaureenrogers@att.net> wrote in message
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> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail@moderncppdesign.com> wrote
in
> news:bc9h7j$gm42t$1@ID-14036.news.dfncis.de:
>
>  > I was mentioning that just to mention a simple language design
decision
>  > that's a no-brainer to implement, yet which imho has a great impact
>  > because
>  > of the psychological issue you mentioned. The others are also
important,
>  > but
>  > not as trivial to implement and support without making performance
>  > tradeoffs.
>
> I am sorry. I misunderstood. I thought you were being sarcastic.
> If your suggestion was adopted, how would it affect existing
> programs? For that matter, why would you ever *want* uninitialized
> variables?

Reading from streams is an obvious example:

int i;

stream >> i;

Intialising "i" beforehand would just be vasteful.


Regards,

Terje

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