I've recorded the compiler podcast for http://handmade-seattle.com and boy do @andy_kelley and @TheGingerBill DELIVER. Here's a fascinating (and edited) excerpt on default values
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"Default to zeroed and be meaningful" sounds like a neat goal, but also like one that doesn't really pan out as soon as your program gets any level of complexity.
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Replying to @Lokathor @AbnerCoimbre and
I disagree. I introduced this a long time ago and called it "ZII", "zero is initialization". It's by far the best way to program that I have found. I use it everywhere.
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Replying to @cmuratori @Lokathor and
(You can watch me acronymify it for the first time here: https://guide.handmadehero.org/code/day341/#1684 …)
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Replying to @cmuratori @AbnerCoimbre and
I seem to recall that you used the term far earlier in the series at least once, because I think I only regularly watched into the 200s, and I do remember you using the term.
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May have. I've been using the concept for a long time, but the _term_ may be relatively new.
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