So the question everyone wants to know now is what language encourages such "symbolic ref" practices, and doesn't have a predictable implicit initialization of variables? Because the original question in this thread seems to be grasping for symbolic refs, and seems to assume that variables not explicitly initialized will be "some random value" (which we know, even for languages such as C, isn't really random).

This is just a muse out on a tangent, of course. ;)