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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Initializing Static Variables
Summary: Dave's law of non-useability ;-)
Message-ID: <957@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 91 02:32:14 GMT
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In article <1991Feb26.014801.29244@athena.mit.edu> scs@adam.mit.edu writes:
>In article <13704@hacgate.UUCP> wdelv@devnet3.UUCP (walt del vecchio) writes:
>>[what's the value of an uninitailized static var?]
>
>[static vars are 0, auto vars are random]

Interesting.  I'm just working out "Dave's law of variable non-useability":

	An uninitialized variable can be counted on to have a random
	value, until such time as a random value will be useful to
	the programmer.  Then, an uninitialized variable can be counted
	on to be zero.

(for the humor impaired, re-read with ";-)" mode on...)

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Dave Schaumann      | Is this question undecidable?
dave@cs.arizona.edu |