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Following a discussion on 4 May 2020, there is interest in having the the default value for a field take on the specified missing_value
if no explicit default_value
is given in the registry entry for a field.
The motivation for this change is that fields that do contain missing values would otherwise need to be explicitly initialized by a core to the missing value; initializing a field to its registry-specified missing_value
would remove this burden from the core developer.