Default value of class

[David B. Held]

davidb wrote:
> Dave schrieb:
>> David B. Held wrote:
>>> Can anyone tell me the expected runtime behavior of this program?
>>>
>>> class Foo
>>> { }
>>>
>>> void main()
>>> {
>>>     Foo foo;
>>>     assert(foo == null);
>>> }
>>>
>>> It's certainly not what I expected, and I want to know if I should 
>>> file a bug report or not.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>
>> Try 'assert(foo is null);'
> 
> See http://www.digitalmars.com/d/operatoroverloading.html
> 
>  > Note: Comparing a reference to a class object against null  should be 
>  > done as:
>  >> if (a is null)
>  > and not as:
>  >> if (a == null)
>  > The latter is converted to:
>  >> if (a.opEquals(null))
> 
> which will fail if a is null because it can't use it to reference to 
> opEquals()

Aha...thanks guys.  However, I am disturbed by two things: 1) that this 
looks more like VB than C++ ;), and 2) that everyone in this thread is 
named "David".  Hmm...

Dave