Hi.
M <address@hidden> wrote:
Hello! When rereading the manual (v5.0.0), I noticed an inexact statement
in Chapter 1:
1.5 A More Complex Example
"(This works because awk variables are automatically initialized to
zero.)"
It's true only in a numeric context.
When used as strings, uninitialized variables are automatically
initialized to an empty string.
Although this peculiarity is emphasised throughout the rest of the manual,
I think it would be useful to mention about it in the introduction
chapter too (especially for novices).
Thanks for the note. Looking at the section as a whole, I think it
would be distracting to try to introduce information about initialization
to the empty string. Sometimes it's better not to be fully complete.
So, I appreciate your making the suggestion, but I think it better to
leave that section alone.