[comp.lang.c++] Re^2: Default argument values

raph@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk (Raphael Mankin) (08/01/89)

dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb) writes:

>In article <20077@paris.ics.uci.edu> schmidt@glacier.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt) writes:

>   There's also another problem.  Allowing ``named parameters,'' a la
>   Ada, weakens information hiding, since formal parameter names are now
>   visible *outside* their original scope!

Does this visiblity matter? After all you are not giving the
programmer access to anything he did not have ccess to before.

	Raphael Mankin			raph@planet.bt.co.uk

Raphael.Mankin@mamab.FIDONET.ORG (Raphael Mankin) (08/05/89)

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