On Oct 2, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Gregory Weston wrote:
It would be a good idea to get into the habit of initializing your local variables at the point of declaration.
At the risk of starting a religious debate, I disagree. It makes the code somewhat bigger and slower, and worse, it can mask uninitialized- variable errors that the compiler can otherwise catch for you (if you turn on the right warning flag, which unfortunately only works in optimized builds.)
I prefer to declare variables only at the point where they're first used, which means that most variables get initialized anyway with non- redundant values.
In the case here, initializing the variable doesn't actually help, as Bill pointed out.
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