float init 0 request

[Indraj Gandham]

On Monday, 17 August 2026 at 14:03:46 UTC, Quirin Schroll wrote:
> 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.

Very little code would be impacted, as shown by OpenD's 
successful change from NaN to 0.0, a small QoL improvement which 
could be implemented in upstream today (but won't be).