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Re: Any way to defer template function overloading?

From Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: Any way to defer template function overloading?
Date 2012-04-02 18:12 +1200
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On 04/ 2/12 05:57 PM, Qi wrote:
> On 2012-4-2 13:53, Ian Collins wrote:
>>
>> Then why don't you just write "int main()"?
>
> "main" function is only the one in my sample code.
> I have a lot of functions that can't omit the parameters
> completely...
>
>> If the parameter isn't used (and named), why would the reader look for it?
>
> Because the parameter name can help readability and help to
> understand the function, IMHO.

Surly the argument about how to comment out the name is evidence that 
simply omitting the name is the best documentation for a parameter that 
isn't used?  I've yet to see a case where clutter helps readability.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Any way to defer template function overloading? Qi <no@no.no> - 2012-04-01 10:05 +0800
  Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-01 16:06 +1200
    Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? Qi <no@no.no> - 2012-04-01 13:53 +0800
  Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2012-04-01 17:24 +0000
    Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-04-02 00:40 +0200
      Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-02 11:02 +1200
      Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2012-04-02 05:29 +0000
    Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? Qi <no@no.com> - 2012-04-02 13:48 +0800
      Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-02 17:53 +1200
        Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? Qi <no@no.com> - 2012-04-02 13:57 +0800
          Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-02 18:12 +1200
            Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-04-02 15:32 +0900
      Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-04-02 14:58 +0900
      Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2012-04-02 10:11 +0000
        Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? Qi <no@no.com> - 2012-04-02 19:04 +0800
          Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? Qi <no@no.com> - 2012-04-02 19:17 +0800
  Re: Any way to defer template function overloading? jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-04-02 14:41 +0000

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