Just where has this language gone wrong?

[Jeff Nowakowski]

On 07/19/2012 09:35 PM, Damian wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 22:32:04 UTC, David Piepgrass wrote:
>>
>> 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" :)
>
> It would be great if D did do this, surely it would not be all
> that difficult! and wouldn't it also help in finding unused variables?

Walter doesn't like it. Past discussions:

http://forum.dlang.org/post/gon06s$1nbe$1@digitalmars.com
http://forum.dlang.org/post/ha37cf$4l2$1@digitalmars.com
http://forum.dlang.org/post/i4mlee$5a2$1@digitalmars.com