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Subject: Re: How to assign an object to another in it method?
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On 7/3/2017 10:04 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> That is what I consider the missing default parameter issue.
>>        // **** NOT JAVA ****
>>        public Demo(String name, int answer = 6, boolean prisoner = false)
> 
> Imho this is one thing that Java actually got right, by *not* supporting.
> 
> In C++, default values can give a hard time when overiding methods with
> defaults, as the default value depends on the static target object
> type even for virtual methods.

Yes.

But is that really a problem?

It seems like what one would expect.

And changing the default value when overriding should be
documented rather well as it is a somewhat suspicious
thing to do.

I hope that a static code analysis tool create warnings
about doing something like that.

Arne