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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.pl1
Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:50:29 +0200
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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.

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