Jonathan M Davis:
AFAIK, not even functional languages where recursion is what
you always do have anything like what you're suggesting.
...
And this is coming from someone who used to program in haskell
quite a bit.
The little enhancement request discussed here requires default
arguments.
Function languages like Haskell don't have default arguments
(despite there are some ways to have them
http://neilmitchell.blogspot.it/2008/04/optional-parameters-in-haskell.html
), so you can't compare well the two situations.
Bye,
bearophile
