On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Zan Lynx <zl...@acm.org> wrote:
> On 10/04/2016 02:00 PM, Martin Sebor wrote:
>> This would have been easier if C++ had allowed the same default value to
>> be given in both the declaration and the definition:
>>
>> void foo(int x, int y, bool bar_p = false);
>>
>> void foo(int x, int y, bool bar_p = false)
>> {
>> }
>
> There is really no point to duplicating it. The default value goes into
> the headers which is what is read by users of the code.In GCC sources, I think users look at the function definition more often than the declaration in the header, the latter of which typically has neither comments nor parameter names. Jason
