[cfe-dev] Default arguments considered harmful?

[Chandler Carruth]

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:

> When I have lots of parameters that control creating an object, I tend
> to prefer a "builder" interface that gives me readable code,
> reasonable defaults
>

This only works if you have reasonable defaults for all of the parameters
(see Reid's comments). If there is a mixture of reasonable defaults and
important parameters, a builder which requires the important ones in the
constructor and allows you to override the defaults of the rest is quite
reasonable though. It isn't clear whether this is such a case, but it might
be.
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