C# and structs... something odd may even a bug with C#

[James Lapalme]

Dear All,

This code should not compile and execute but is does ... why???

Here is the code ... I'm using Visual Studio .Net 2002

public struct Point{
public int x;
public int y;
}

public class App{
static Point p;
public static void Main(){
Point a = new Point();
a.x = 1;
a.y = 1;
a.Equals(p);
}
}

If I change the code to :

public class App{
public static void Main(){
Point p;
Point a = new Point();
a.x = 1;
a.y = 1;
a.Equals(p);
}
}

It does not compile any more because I'm using p without having initialized
it's members... but in the first code I did not initialized them either.

Thanks,

James Lapalme

 

[cody]

Thats because member variables (static and nonstatic) are automatically
assigned to its default value, whereas local variables are not and have to
be assigned manually.