Re: Re: Prolegemona To A Future Scripting Language: Game Of Life In Perl 6

[jryan]

# Setting default value to 0 reduces initialization costs

How does setting a default value reduce initialization costs? Zero is the default initialization value for PMCs anyways, so wouldn't setting it explicitly just create extra work?

[TheDamian]

I meant: reduces initialization costs in comparison to the previous version, which was iteratively setting every element to zero in a pair of nested for loops.