Thread: friends with default values

In my latest endeavor I ran into a friends problem. I've got 2 functions declared and defined with 2 parameters in one file. In another file they and a lot of other functions are declared as friends. These 2 functions have the last parameter declared with a default NULL value.

Code:

  friend void CheckIntegerOrReal(const TType *pType1,
                   const TType *pType2 = NULL);
  friend void CheckBoolean      (const TType *pType1,
                   const TType *pType2 = NULL)

I guess the intent was to use these functions with one or two parameters because later in this project both of these functions are called using just one parameter! This kind of makes sense to me. But the compiler doesn't like friends with default parameters. If I take out the = NULL, the compiler is happy! But the calling code below isn't! Not enough parameters.

Code:

CheckBoolean(ParseExpression());

This is the calling code using one return value parameter. The only thing I can think of doing is to change the call with an extra NULL parameter. Any thoughts are definitely welcome on this vexing matter.
maxcy/wt1v

I did try calling the 2 parameter functions with a NULL 2nd parameter and all is well making the code work. So I guess declaring friends with default parameters might have worked with the older compilers, but not with the newer compiler versions.
maxcy