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- From: maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: do variable names in header and source need to match
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.122950.3471@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 12:29:50 GMT
- References: <1992Dec2.201236.16404@aruba.uucp> <1992Dec3.112538.11314@unix.brighton.ac.uk> <717@ulogic.UUCP>
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- In article <717@ulogic.UUCP> hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:
- >Haveing seen bunches of additional defaulted args added to constructors
- >as projects march on, I would CERTAINLY like to see a name-specified
- >extension. If you ever get a preprocesser to do this, let me know!
- >
-
- My understanding is that the committee seriously considered
- named parameters and rejected them when the complications to the
- type system and resultant ambiguities made them unworkable.
-
- Probably these same considerations would also apply to
- a language extension implemented by a preprocessor.
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