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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: String filtering
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:53:11 +0000 (UTC)
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Simon Wright wrote:
> David Trudgett <wpower@zeta.org.au.nospamplease> writes:
> 
> 
>>Thanks for pointing that out, by the way, because I wasn't sure
>>initially. I'm loathe, however, to depend upon default
>>initialisation, even when it's specified in a standard.
> 
> 
> Where the standard specifies initialization (eg for access types, or
> here) you probably won't get a warning for 'used before written
> to'. But in other cases, if you don't know what to set the variable to
> it is better _not_ to initialize it; that way the compiler has at
> least a chance to tell you if you haven't set the value before using
> it.

...and use "pragma Normalize_Scalars;". :-)

Cheers

-- Martin