float init 0 request

[Quirin Schroll]

On Friday, 14 August 2026 at 06:38:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Floats are default initialized to NaN so people will be coerced 
> to explicitly code what they want the initialized value to be.

Maybe the next D Edition could require initialization of types 
that don’t initialize with a value equal to `0`. D’s behavior 
with these is annoying, because leads to needless debug sessions, 
and also surprising because no other language that D is similar 
to does that: C++. C# and Java all default-initialize to `0`. 
Essentially, character and floating-point types should behave 
like structs with `@disable this()`.

Of course, as I said, that would be for the next Edition because 
it would break code. I don’t know how much existing D code really 
uses those initializers, probably some, but very little, because 
the defaults are quite useless, intentionally so.