Why aren't unassigned local variables automatically initialized?

Question

It seems like there is no way to have unassigned local variables in your code or check for them, as the compiler spits out Use of unassigned local variable erro

Answer 1

Because what do you want in there? you want x to be zero by default and I want it to be 5...

if they assign 0 to int(s) and all the world starts assuming so, then they will change to -1 at some point and this will break so many applications around the globe.

in VB6 variables were assigned to something by default I think, and it was not as good as it seemed to be.

when you use C#, or C++, you assign the value with what you want, not the compiler for you.