Re: proposal : keyword default

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From	Edward Diener <eldiener@tropicsoft.invalid>
Subject	Re: proposal : keyword default
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Date	2013-10-07 01:50 -0600

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On 10/5/2013 10:19 PM, Bo Persson wrote:
>
> Paul D. DeRocco skrev 2013-10-04 20:58:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/3/2013 3:25 PM, alexander.stoyan@googlemail.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Instead it would be elegant to just use:
>>>
>>> thread_t thr_id = 0;
>>> make_thread(thread_function, default, default, default, &thr_id);
>>
>>
>>
>> I didn't see the earlier parts of this thread, so this may have come up.
>> Has the idea of leaving out the arguments entirely come up? E.g.,
>>
>> make_thread(thread-function, , , , &thr_id);
>>
>
> I believe this has been considered, but seen as too error prone.
>
> make_thread(thread_function,, my_params);  //  Oops wrong parameter!


C++ was never a language which tried to prevent programming errors by
making the syntax overly obvious at the cost of ease of use when it
could do so.


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Re: proposal : keyword default alexander.stoyan@googlemail.com - 2013-10-03 13:25 -0600
  Re: proposal : keyword default Daniel Krügler <daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com> - 2013-10-04 11:19 -0700
  Re: proposal : keyword default "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-10-04 11:58 -0700
    Re: proposal : keyword default Bo Persson <bop@gmb.dk> - 2013-10-05 19:19 -0700
      Re: proposal : keyword default Edward Diener <eldiener@tropicsoft.invalid> - 2013-10-07 01:50 -0600
    Re: proposal : keyword default Edward Diener <eldiener@tropicsoft.invalid> - 2013-10-05 19:19 -0700
      Re: proposal : keyword default Francis Glassborow <francis.glassborow@btinternet.com> - 2013-10-07 01:50 -0600
        Re: proposal : keyword default Edward Diener <eldiener@tropicsoft.invalid> - 2013-10-07 15:05 -0600
          Re: proposal : keyword default James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2013-10-08 12:36 -0700
          Re: proposal : keyword default Helmut Zeisel <zei2011@liwest.at> - 2013-10-12 03:47 -0600
            Re: proposal : keyword default Edward Diener <eldiener@tropicsoft.invalid> - 2013-10-12 11:36 -0600
              Re: proposal : keyword default ootiib@hot.ee - 2013-10-12 23:10 -0600
              Re: proposal : keyword default John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-13 11:33 -0600
                Re: proposal : keyword default Edward Diener <eldiener@tropicsoft.invalid> - 2013-10-16 10:34 -0600
              Re: proposal : keyword default Helmut Zeisel <zei2011@liwest.at> - 2013-10-14 20:37 -0700
  Re: proposal : keyword default Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> - 2013-10-18 01:20 -0600

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