Structs are Not Plain: A call for empty struct constructors
Ola Fosheim Grøstad
ola.fosheim.grostad at gmail.com
Fri Oct 4 07:57:38 UTC 2019
On Monday, 23 September 2019 at 09:03:25 UTC, Olivier FAURE wrote:
> I just want to point out that this isn't an inherently
> unsolvable problem. You can have a type system where leaving
> your variable uninitialized is statically forbidden
The problem is containers like arrays. It is difficult to prove
that every element has been initialized.
Btw, having everything zero-initialized by default has a
performance advantage (you can have a background thread zero out
the unused memory pool).
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