Default Arguments and Function Overloading

This lecture covers the concept of default arguments in function prototypes, where values can be provided for parameters, and the function can be called without providing arguments for those parameters. It also explains the rules for specifying default arguments and the order in which they should appear. Additionally, the lecture introduces function overloading in C++, allowing the definition of multiple functions with the same name but different parameter lists. This mechanism is useful for writing functions sensitive to the type of their arguments, enabling the implementation of similar operations on different types of entities.

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In computer programming, a function or subroutine is a sequence of program instructions that performs a specific task, packaged as a unit. This unit can then be used in programs wherever that particular task should be performed. Functions may be defined within programs, or separately in libraries that can be used by many programs. In different programming languages, a function may be called a routine, subprogram, subroutine, or procedure; in object-oriented programming (OOP), it may be called a method.

Function overloading

In some programming languages, function overloading or method overloading is the ability to create multiple functions of the same name with different implementations. Calls to an overloaded function will run a specific implementation of that function appropriate to the context of the call, allowing one function call to perform different tasks depending on context. For example, and are overloaded functions. To call the latter, an object must be passed as a parameter, whereas the former does not require a parameter, and is called with an empty parameter field.

Operator overloading

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