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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: String filtering
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:55:57 +0100
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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.