Just where has this language gone wrong?

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:32:03 +0200
"David Piepgrass" <qwertie256 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I suspect that you have a C++ background. If this is not 
> > accurate, ignore the rest. But if it is accurate, my plea to 
> > you is: Learn other languages. C++ has next to no innovative 
> > language features (even C++11's take on lambdas is an 
> > abomination) and encourages defensive programming to the point 
> > where it's ridiculous (I mean, no default initialization of 
> > variables? In 2012?).
> 
> Actually, C# has no default initialization* of local variables, 
> and I love it. Instead, it is a compile-time error to read a 
> variable if the compiler cannot guarantee that you have 
> initialized it. IMO this is much better than D's "let's 
> initialize doubles to NaN so that something fishy will happen at 
> runtime if you forget to initialize it" :)
> 
> * technically the compiler asks the runtime to bitwise 0-fill 
> everything, but that's just an implementation detail required for 
> the .NET verifier, and the optimizer can ignore the request to 
> preinitialize.

I've always wished D worked that way, too.