Hello boost community, since this seems to me kind of a proving ground for new C++ library/language features I'd ask this question here. Would you recon' writing a language proposal about: using the 'default'-keyword as some standard way of calling the default ctor of variables. I could imagine the following use-case: void foo( some::very_long_name<some_very_long_template_param> arg = default ){ return; } This would make things shorter, in the way 'auto' does it for types. You could also do it for passing parameters: foo( default ); This could interact very well with boost::optional, make it more intuitive and easier to use: optional<int> bar( optional<some_long_type_name> arg = default ){ return default; } bar( default ); This way, you don't have to write 'optional<some_long_type_name>()', both at the parameter and at the function call. What do you think of such a language proposal? Regards, Jakob Riedle