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by lptk 2978 days ago
> The first example disproved ionforce's claim that default values cannot be constructed dynamically.

But I don't think that is what they meant. I think they meant something along the lines of what I said above:

> an expression with an arbitrary number of subexpressions may be synthesized, the shape of which depends on the types involves

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OK, maybe I misunderstood ionforce. I don't deny that type-driven synthesis is a core element of implicits.