We need to define the semantics of block initialization of arrays

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 6/3/13, Don <turnyourkidsintocash at nospam.com> wrote:
> A lot of code relies on this behaviour, but the spec doesn't
> mention it!!!

I didn't know about it until Walter mentioned the syntax to me. I've
found it quite useful since then. E.g.:

char[100] buffer = 0;

Without this buffer is normally initialized with 0xFF, and this could
break C functions when you pass a pointer to such an array.

> Personally I'd like to just use block-init everywhere.

Me too. You get my vote.