Python Front-end to GCC

[Mark Lawrence]

On 25/10/2013 19:26, Mark Janssen wrote:
>>>>> OTOH why in particular would you want to initialise them with zeros? I
>>>>> often initialise arrays to nan which is useful for debugging.
>>>
>>> Is this some kind of joke?  What has this list become?
>>
>> It's a useful debugging technique to initialize memory to distinctive values
>> that should never occur in real data.
>
> If you're doing this, you're doing something wrong.   Please give me
> the hex value for NaN so I can initialize with my array.
>

It is clear that you know as much about debugging as you do about 
objects and message passing, a summary here for the uninitiated 
http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-ideas/19908/. I can see why the 
BDFL described you as an embarrassment, and if he didn't, he certainly 
should have done.

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But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence