https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ncurses1010Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:24:49 +0000What do you think of kotlins approach where it has a 'todo' function that can always coerce to a type, but instead of populating the variable with a default value that's valid, it just throws

]]>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:31:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47931061ncurses1010https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47931061https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47931061With the default initialization to nan, do you ever run into situations where people are searching for common sources for nan (nan literals, div by zero) and they can't find it? Or cases where only some branches but not others initialize the float?

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