default initialization of char arrays

monkyyy crazymonkyyy at gmail.com
Wed Oct 1 20:00:35 UTC 2025


On Wednesday, 1 October 2025 at 18:09:27 UTC, Ogion wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 September 2025 at 23:35:29 UTC, JN wrote:
>> I feel like in such scenario a warning should be issued, or 
>> even compilation error, "static array initialization expects 
>> 10 values, only 1 provided". Sooner or later someone will hit 
>> the same issue again and spend hours debugging why the array 
>> doesn't get zeroed.
>
> Yep, the syntax should be more explicit. Something like this:
> ```D
> float[10] x = [42, ...];   // [42, NaN, ..., NaN]
> float[10] y = [1:42, ...]; // [NaN, 42, NaN, ..., NaN]
> ```

nah they just going to break it without a replacement


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