> it happened only once that I missed default parameters in C#
I actually missed it lots of times. You can work around it by overloading the method, but that's boilerplate for a simple concept.
I also miss named arguments (in both Ruby and C#). When reading the code, when a method has more arguments than one I often forget what the arguments are or their positioning, and it is a lot more readable to specify the arguments by their names ...
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I totally agree with you! the code is definitely more readable. I think the object initalizer (e.g. var o = new MyObject(){ID=123};) was a step in the direction of named parameters.
however, it looks like named parameters will be shipped with .NET 4.0: http://geekswithblogs.net/michelotti/archive/2009/01/22/c-4....
> Java has the same types of method arguments.
no it hasn't. You can't do
public method(String name = "test") {...}
C# (.NET 3.5) misses one type of method argument: the default parameter (it will be shipped with .NET 4.0). I have to admit, it happened only once that I missed default parameters in C#. however, there's a workaround to solve this problem: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa287762(VS.71).aspx