From -7108441978518905898 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,a1681fbe736bf77b X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-06-03 20:08:09 PST Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uhog.mit.edu!xn.ll.mit.edu!xn!haydens From: haydens@wayback.atc.ll.mit.edu (Hayden Schultz x3685 ) Subject: Re: Why do default arguments have to be at the end? In-Reply-To: affrunti@orion.oac.uci.edu's message of 3 Jun 94 17:49:40 GMT Message-ID: Lines: 24 Sender: usenet@xn.ll.mit.edu Reply-To: haydens@ll.mit.edu Organization: M.I.T. Lincoln Lab - Air Traffic Surveillance Group References: Date: 04 Jun 1994 03:01:56 GMT >>>>> "Bob" == Bob Affrunti writes: Bob> Why couldn't you have something like: Bob> x.afunction( ,2,3,4 ); x.afrunction( ,2,,4 ); Well, for one thing there is an operator,(). So what would the above syntax mean? Trouble for both the programmer and the compiler writer. I think that anyone who writes code like afunction(a,(b,c),c) should be taken out and shot, but that's valid C++ (and C) code, which would be broken or very difficult to interpret. Plus, it would be one more break with C syntax for no real gain in functionality. Hayden -- Hayden Schultz haydens@ll.mit.edu MIT Lincoln Lab 244 Wood St. Lexington, MA, 02173 (617) 981-3685