float init 0 request

[Walter Bright]

On 8/14/2026 5:48 AM, Indraj Gandham wrote:
> It's worth noting that the proposed change was implemented in OpenD

That's a mistake.

> and there have been very few complaints.

All it takes is one unintentional default initialization of 0.0 which leads to a 
subtle bug in your avionics code, banking software, I-beam design, data 
analysis, etc.

And yes, I have seen cases were a linter complained about lack of an initializer 
on C code, and the maintainer inserted "=0" which closed the issue, but 
introduced a bug.

The idea is to make such bugs OBVIOUS, not subtle.