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Re: Any way to defer template function overloading?

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Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:
>> 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.

I think it depends.

For instance, consider the initial (highest-level) definition of a
virtual method.  You want the parameter names because they're acting
as documentation for the interface (and the method comment probably
refers to them by name).  But I've found that I often use an inline
method body with a trivial "default definition" that doesn't reference
any of the parameters (and just returns false or something).

I don't want to use an out-of-line method definition for that method
(it's just annoying, and the inline definition actually provides good
documentation of such a trivial default), but the compiler complains
because I don't reference any of the arguments[*], although obviously
the arguments may be referenced by overrides.  What I usually do is
just comment out parameter names.

[*] I actually submitted a bug report trying to make an argument that
g++ shouldn't warn about unreferenced arguments in inline definitions
of virtual methods, but didn't get much sympathy....

-miles

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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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