To Walter, about char[] initialization by FF

[Andrew Fedoniouk]

> But maybe that's because I never leave things at their defaults.  It's
> like writing a story where you expect the reader to think everyone has 
> brown eyes unless you say otherwise.
>

Consider this:

char[6] buf;
strncpy(buf, "1234567", 5);

What will be a content of you buffer?

Answer is: 12345\xff . Surprise? It is.

In modern D reliable implementation of this shall be as:

char[6] buf; // memset(buf,0xFF,6); under the hood.
uint n = strncpy(buf, "1234567", 5);
buf[n] = 0;

if you are going to use this with non D modules.

Needless to say that this is a bit redundant.

If D in any case initializes that memory why you need
this uint n and buf[n] = 0; ?

Don't tell me please that this is because your spent
your childhood in boyscout camps and got some high principles.
Lets' put aside that matters - it is purely technical discussion.

Andrew.