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Default arguments are often considered to be optional arguments, however a default argument is only optional in the sense that the caller need not provide a value for it. The function must still instantiate the argument and must assign the appropriate value to it so, insofar as the function is concerned, the argument is not optional.

To implement a function with a truly optional argument, we can define two overloads of that function, one that accepts the optional argument (without specifying a default value) and one that does not accept the argument. In this way we can define two different implementations, one that uses the argument and one that does not.

void f (); // implementation that does not use the argument

void f (int); // implementation that does use the argument

In many cases, a default argument incurs no significant overhead over that of overloading. Thus we'd only use overloading to implement an optional argument where there is a significant overhead incurred by a default argument. Even so, we must also be aware that by eliminating the overhead within the function itself we may simply be passing that overhead back to the callers, because some or all of them would then have to decide which overload to call, resulting in code duplication that would likely be best handled by the function itself.

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