On 2010-02-18 12:18:47 -0500, Martin Franklin
<[email protected]> said:
Its time to dump C-like languages - I have the evidence.
http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt28.htm
Nice read... and it gives me a new feature idea for D! The article
rants about default parameters not being very useful when you have more
than one (something I agree with), then propose an improvement:
Furthermore, they do not provide a great deal of convenience. If a
routine has five parameters, the last three of which are optional, and
caller wants to assume the defaults for parameters 3 and 4, but must
specify parameter 5, then all five parameters must be specified. A
better scheme would be to have a default keyword in function calls:
f (a, b, default, default, e);
Would't that be nice to be able to use the 'default' keyword when you
want to use the default value for a parameter? Should be pretty trivial
to implement.
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Michel Fortin
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http://michelf.com/
