float init 0 request

Serg Gini kornburn at yandex.ru
Mon Aug 17 07:52:21 UTC 2026


On Sunday, 16 August 2026 at 02:00:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> BTW, C and C++ will default initialize all variables to garbage 
> when they are declared as a function local! Those are very hard 
> to track down. I once spent 3 days trying to track one down. It 
> scarred me for life.

I think we should stop comparing with 50 years old languages. The 
bar is too low.

I've checked what modern system languages are doing:
Mojo, Swift, Zig and Rust are not allowing to declare 
uninitialized float.

Go is making it 0.0


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