Scott Meyers wants to bring default zero-initialization to C++, mentions TDPL for precedent

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 20:37:10 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 12:12:42 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 19:09:48 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
>> Grøstad wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 18:52:02 UTC, Jack Stouffer 
>>> wrote:
>>>> For those of you who have never had the pleasure of writing 
>>>> PHP, lots of PHP code does completely different things 
>>>> depending on the compiler switches when the interpreter was
>>>
>>> Php is a dynamic language, that's different.
>>
>> Would you guys please stop calling PHP a language. JS and PHP 
>> are not languages, they are a fiddly feckin mess, which 
>> accounts for their high adoption rate. Sigh. Please, no 
>> gainsaying now, no "Yes, buts".
>
> You may say that, yet, it both are widely used. There are 
> reasons for that, and people are idiot is not one of them.
>
> PHP scales. This is why people use it. And this is why people 
> will continue to use it. This is why Facebook, wikipedia, 
> Baidu, wordpress and many others are using it. There is always 
> a reason, and if you don't understand it, you are doomed to 
> miss the point.

D is not in that league.