Private default arguments?

[bearophile]

Jonathan M Davis:

> AFAIK, not even functional languages where recursion is what 
> you always do have anything like what you're suggesting.
> ...
> And this is coming from someone who used to program in haskell
> quite a bit.

The little enhancement request discussed here requires default 
arguments.
Function languages like Haskell don't have default arguments 
(despite there are some ways to have them  
http://neilmitchell.blogspot.it/2008/04/optional-parameters-in-haskell.html 
), so you can't compare well the two situations.

Bye,
bearophile