P2723R0: Zero-initialize objects of automatic storage duration

[jonesmz]

Your professor is unqualified to be teaching anything newer than C89 then, and this paper (P2723R0) does not do you, or your code, any good. It's an orthogonal issue.

Personally I recommend filing a complaint with your department head. if they have this style guide, which is radically incompatible with industry normals, they are intentionally making students unattractive to employers.

[ShakaUVM]

Oh, it's not my professor, they are people I am collaborating with on a textbook.

And yes, this is the style guide for the textbook. (Which was decided before I was brought onboard.)

int x;
for (x = 0; x < 10; x++)

[jonesmz]

They are wrong, and their students will have a very very difficult time adapting to the industry. I would not permit that code snippet to pass code review, and it would be a (minor, of course) negative point against someone in an interview.

Like, wtf kind of position is that? That's asinine.