why is it a bad practise to not initialize primitive fields in a class?
initialization, java, primitive
Solution
ALL instance variables are initialized. If you don't specify a value, the default value is used.
Who says it's bad practice to not initialize instance variables? I tend not to initialize them unless it's to a non-default value, but it's not a big deal either way. It's about readability and reducing "code noise" improves readability. Useless initializing is code noise IMHO.
Problem
Java primitives always have a default value in the memory of O (booleans are false = 0). So why is it considered as a bad practise to not initialize them, if they even have a predefined value because of this mechanic? And in arrays, even with initialization of a new int[8], all the values in it arent really initialized, but that isnt frowned upon...