floats default to NaN... why?

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 09/06/12 20:42, Minas wrote:
>> With
>> ints, the best we can do is 0. With floats, NaN makes it better.
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> With the logic that NaN is the default for floats, 0 is a very bad choice for ints. It the worst we could do. Altough I understand that setting it to something else like -infinity is still not a good choice.
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Do you ave in mind something as NaI (Nat an Integer) ?

> I think that if D wants people to initialize their variables, it should generate a compiler error when not doing so, like C# and Java. For me, having floats defaulting to NaN and ints to zero is somewhere in the middle... Which isn't good.
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> The current solution is not good for me (I still love D though).
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Jerome