Re: another C-like language? was Compilers :)

From	"marb...@yahoo.co.uk" <marblypup@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: another C-like language? was Compilers :)
Date	2023-01-15 04:26 -0800
Organization	Compilers Central
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On Wednesday, 11 January 2023 at 23:10:38 UTC, David Brown wrote:
> The same applies to C and C++ programming, when using static error
> checking. (And during development, you should definitely be using a
> compiler capable of spotting missing initialisations, and you should
> treat such warnings as bugs in your code.) And like Java tools, C and
> C++ compilers are not /quite/ perfect :-)
>
> So I agree that there are occasional uses for such "artificial"
> initialisation. There are also occasions when declaring a variable
> without initialising makes sense because you will later set its value
> inside a conditional.

Indeed. I've occasionally had compilers complain about uninitialised
variables though I could see that my (rather perverse?) code did
always initialise them before they were used (but possibly not if they
weren't). In such cases, I've added an initialisation to the
declaration just to shut the compiler up. (Warnings of uninitialised
variables usually do indicate bugs.)

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