Is there a reason for default-int?

[Ary Borenszweig]

Don wrote:
> Phil Deets wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:18:46 -0500, Simen kjaeraas 
>> <simen.kjaras at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Apart from C legacy, is there a reason to assume anything we don't 
>>> know what
>>> is, is an int? Shouldn't the compiler instead say 'unknown type' or 
>>> something
>>> else that makes sense?
>>>
>>
>> C++ abandoned default int. I think it would be best for D to do the same.
> 
> D never had default int. When there's an error, the compiler just has to 
> choose *some* type, so that it doesn't crash <g>.

It could be an Error type (that's not an alias for int type) that don't 
start to spit errors everywhere and instead just blocks all further 
errors on that type.