
18 Nov
2004
18 Nov
'04
2:53 p.m.
On Nov 17, 2004, at 9:46 PM, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
Why would I ever want to invent global shared name keyword and used it anytime I want parameter name amoung my function parameters??
Because families of functions often take similar parameters. Consider how many algorithms in the Graph library accept a "weight_map" parameter: I counted at least 8 of them. How should we handle these weight map parameters for all of these functions, if we don't share the keyword? Doug