float init 0 request

[claptrap]

On Thursday, 20 August 2026 at 03:39:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/15/2026 3:07 AM, claptrap wrote:
>> You need to stop acting like it's foolproof, it's really not.
>
> You are correct that it is not foolproof, but it is far better 
> than 0, because the error is far more likely to be detected.

And that's great if it's a one to one trade off. But what if nine 
times out of ten zero was the correct initial value? So you end 
up with this...

1 bug that is harder to detect? Nine correctly init to 0, and one 
wrongly.

or

10 bugs that are easier to detect? Ten init to NaN.

That's the **actual** tradeoff here.