Function pointers/delegates default args were stealth removed?

[Timon Gehr]

On 08/27/2012 04:53 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 8/27/12 7:34 AM, Manu wrote:
>> On 27 August 2012 17:03, foobar <foo at bar.com <mailto:foo at bar.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     This discussion is all sorts of wrong. Whoever said that defargs are
>>     metadata (Manu?) was right. Therefore it would make sense to
>>     implement a general metadata facility for D and use *that* for
>>     defargs. C++11 has annotations, so that's the place to start looking
>>     at. D has already enough of those pesky special case features, let's
>>     not add yet another one at the expense of a more general
>>     metadata/annotation mechanism which eventually would be added anyway
>>     due to popular demand.
>>
>>
>> Yes, I suggested this as a possibility above, but nobody commented. It
>> seems like it might solve 2 problems with one stone ;)
>
> Whilst I agree a metadata facility is an interesting topic to look into,
> I think default arguments for functions is a poor motivating example.
>
> Andrei

+1.