are initial values in class fields mandatory ? (ocaml)

[fbesnard <fbesnard@ac-nice.fr>]

I'd like to define a class in Ocaml without giving intial values to its fields. Is it possible ?

For example, as far as I've seen, a class with a int and an int list fields would look like this:

class dummy () =
	val mutable v = 0
	val mutable l = ([] : int list)
end;;


but what about a field of type t, for which there is no default value ?
i.e.

	val mutable v = ( ??? : t )


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