Re: [boost] Re: Policy-based vector? [was: Submission: Fixed-Capacity STL Containers Library]

From: Kevin Cline (kcline_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-07 16:14:23

Andrei Alexandrescu writes:
 > > I'm a big fan of having named (or keyword) parameters in the language.<
 > 
 > Me too. Unfortunately it's late to introduce named parameters in C++ now,
 > because it's very liberal with the names you give to formal parameters in
 > declarations...

I'm curious why we couldn't use => (or <-) to separate parameter names
and values.

 > The only reasonable way now is to come with a keyword to substitute for
 > non-trailing default parameters. The obvious candidate is "default"; I would
 > prefer a symbol (such as "?", "!") because "default" is quite a long word.

Why can't we just leave the default parameters out?

  f(a,,3)

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