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From: raph@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk (Raphael Mankin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re^2: Default argument values
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Date: 1 Aug 89 16:19:11 GMT
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dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb) writes:

>In article <20077@paris.ics.uci.edu> schmidt@glacier.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt) writes:

>   There's also another problem.  Allowing ``named parameters,'' a la
>   Ada, weakens information hiding, since formal parameter names are now
>   visible *outside* their original scope!

Does this visiblity matter? After all you are not giving the
programmer access to anything he did not have ccess to before.

	Raphael Mankin			raph@planet.bt.co.uk