create and initialise array

[Mike Parker]

On Saturday, 19 September 2020 at 21:53:34 UTC, mw wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 June 2019 at 07:57:25 UTC, KnightMare wrote:

>>
>> imo NaN is useless, weird and unusual coz integrals and 
>> pointers are "all bits zeroes" but float and chars are "all 
>> bits ones". WTF? its strange that bool.init is false in such 
>> case.
>> .init = "all zeroes" can be faster initialize any block of 
>> memory.
>
>
> I have the same question, why float/double are init to NaN, 
> instead of 0? as other post-C++ language does? e.g Java, C# ...
>
> What's the reason for this design decision?

The default init values in D are intended to stand out if you're 
looking at a printf dump or a debugger. NaN for float double, and 
invalid UTF values for char/wchar/dchar were intentionally 
chosen. For the integrals, there are no invalid values, so we're 
stuck with 0.