Re: Problem with linker

It seems to me that Doug is in favor of default arguments...

And, at this point in this thread, I still think that default
arguments are a good tool, IMHO (as I wrote at the beginning of the
thread).
I like this "syntactic sugar" :) , as you define them.
(Of course, the good programmer will not abuse default arguments: if
we abuse "sugar", we could incur diabetes :)

I still don't quite understand why Joe is against about default
arguments only in ctors; I think that his examples were very "ad hoc",
very specific. If code is designed well IMHO default arguments can be
good also in ctors...

Even if I'm not a "language lawyer" and I have an attitude similar to
you David towards programming languages (a "practical programmer"), I
enjoy very much reading the C++ very experts like Doug explaining and
elaborating in details their points.
(For example, some Doug's posts pointed my attention to "exception
safety", which is a good thing for robust code, and I was kind of
ignoring it in some contexts.)