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From: shap@delrey.sgi.com (Jonathan Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: default arg handling
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Date: 14 Mar 90 19:52:00 GMT
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In article <11430020@hpldola.HP.COM> patch@hpldola.HP.COM (Pat Chkoreff) writes:
>/ hpldola:comp.lang.c++ / shap@delrey.sgi.com (Jonathan Shapiro) /  4:13 pm  Mar 10, 1990 /
>
>As Mark Langley has pointed out, the supplying of default arguments should
>be thought of as the responsibility of the caller, not part of the function
>definition.

De facto, C++ says otherwise.  If what you say were true, the
following would be legal:

	extern foo(int = 5);

	...

	extern foo(int = 10);

in the same file.  Note that C++ disallows this.

Jon