[cfe-dev] Default arguments considered harmful?

[Reid Kleckner]

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Yikes! But ASTRecordLayout's constructor beats this function's puny 17
> parameters -- it has 20.  And DeclaratorChunk::getFunction is the winner in
> Clang, with 21 parameters (and only one miserable, lonely default
> argument). In total, LLVM and Clang (and LLDB and whatever else is in my
> source tree...) has nearly 100 functions in header files with 10 or more
> parameters.
>

Well, record layout is complicated.  :)  Would you rather build a fresh
record layout and set the fields individually, potentially letting callers
ignore some fields?
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