Optional Procedure and Function parameters

[Tyr_God_Of_War]

Can you create optional parameters?

example:

intstr ( i : int [ , width : int [ , base : int ] ] ) : string

The width and base parameters are optional.

[Insectoid]

umm..not in my knowledge. In languages like Perl it is definitely possible, though nothing is really to be gained by it. Why would you want to?

[Tony]

because sometimes you might want to specify one of many arguments to be some value other than a default one.

Turing might have a way (or a workaround to the same effect), but I'm not sure.

[Vermette]

Just some clarification; are you referring to Overloading, or Variadics?

[Tyr_God_Of_War]

I wanted to do something just like the intstr or strint functions; where if you omit parameters a default value is used instead.

I would gladly use either one if possible in Turing. Variadics would be easier to do what I had in mind, however.

[[Gandalf]]

Sadly, Turing offers neither. Though I suppose you can override procedures in inherited classes, but that's not really what you're looking for.

intstr() and others work as they do because they are programmed into the Turing environment/compiler/interpreter in C or C++.

[drij]

Workaround:

code:

procedure full (param_1, param_2, param_3)      /* Code Here */ end full procedure shorter (param_1, param_2)      full (param_1, param_2, {param_3 Default Value}) end shorter procedure shortest (param_1)      shorter (param_1, {param_2 Default Value}) end shortest

It's not really what you asked for, but it's about the closest you can come in Turing.

[Tyr_God_Of_War]

Well, thanks anyway.