[boost] Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted (was: Re:Preliminarysubmission: command line & config file library)

From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-18 10:52:50

Edward Diener wrote:
[...]
> the system for setting default parameters somehow being changed to solve
> this problem, so that a user can override a default without having to
> override all 
> default parameters but that doesn't seem to solve the problem in my mind.
> Something clearer and cleaner is needed but I don't know what it is.

You might want to take a look at this:

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=199608081434.IAA07848%40ncar.ucar.EDU
(Subject: comp.std.c++: Default arguments)

The "bottom line" was: 

   ...why not provide an additional meaning for the "default" keyword...

Well, the question/problem/suggestion didn't raise much attention, however.

regards,
alexander.