On 20 April 2016 at 05:52, Jim Michaels wrote: > > > On 4/19/2016 2:05 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> >> On 19 April 2016 at 09:38, Jim Michaels wrote: >>> >>> in c and c++, please support default assignment to non-member functions. >>> thanks. example: >>> >>> void abc(std::string filename, bool doit=false); >>> >>> this should not affect shared libraries/dlls/so. >> >> C++ already supports this. >> >> C doesn't support any default arguments, and that's unlikely to change. > > > if it did, people would be very very happy - I wonder what its effect on > DLLs would be? None, default arguments are purely syntactic sugar, resolved entirely at the call site.
