tivac/yui3 — comment on commit 3025c5c626eaa531fd88c60867dc283f7ad2478c
File: src/paginator/js/paginator-base.js line 15
By tivac:

My thoughts were that a sane default would be difficult & almost every case would be setting their own `total` anyways so trying to guess for them was a bit futile.

It doesn't hurt anything though. I'd go with 0.