Ok. They didn't motivate it either. Reading a little between the lines it seems it's mostly there to avoid a bias to a default init value like zero, i.e. symmetry purely for its own sake. I don't give much for such arguments.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS
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2003-09-04 02:17: Subject: Language comparisions
It's one of the ticks from the programming langauge D comparision chart. http://www.digitalmars.com/d/declaration.html#typedef
/ Martin Nilsson (ja till euro, nej till cent)