"Terje Slettebų" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 092001c2bfeb$e91ee110$cb6c6f50@pc">news:092001c2bfeb$e91ee110$cb6c6f50@pc... > This issue is also discussed in D&E. When you have ordinary function calls, > you also have the names/values used in the call, to help you understand the > meaning of the parameters. Consider: > > Window w=make_window("Title",0,0,100,100,some_flags); > > with defaults anywhere in the parameter list, you could get: > > Window w=make_window(,,,,,123); > > It may be non-trivial to figure out what the number corresponds to, unless > you remember what the preceding parameters are, or look them up.
One thing I like less about D&E is that it discusses some problem, a couple of possible solutions to it, and why they are not recommendable. It does not, however, discuss the obvious alternative solutions that avoid the mentioned drawbacks. For example, in this case D&E does not go the normal path of discussing how the solutions: Window w=make_window(?,?,?,?,?,123); or: Window w=make_window(default,default,default,default,default,123); would work. Andrei _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
