Which D features to emphasize for academic review article

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Walter Bright wrote:
> 3. Floating point values are default initialized to NaN.

This isn't a good feature, IMO. C# handles this much more 
conveniently with just as much optimization/debugging benefit 
(arguably more so, because it catches NaN issues at 
compile-time). In C#:

     class Foo
     {
         float x; // defaults to 0.0f

         void bar()
         {
             float y; // doesn't default
             y ++; // ERROR: use of unassigned local

             float z = 0.0f;
             z ++; // OKAY
         }
     }

This is the same behavior for any local variable, so where in D 
you need to explicitly set variables to 'void' to avoid 
assignment costs, C# automatically benefits and catches your NaN 
mistakes before runtime.

Sorry, I'm not trying to derail this thread. I just think D's has 
other, much better advertising points that this one.