function template default arguements

Wow, it''s an undocumented error code in my MSDN!

No you can. This compiles fine on VC++ 6

template <typename T> void F( T t1, T t = 0 ) { } int main() { F( 3 ); return 0; }

If you want default template arguments, you can declare a second template with fewer arguments, that then calls the original.

template< class T, int i > f() { do stuff; }
template< class T > f() { f(); }

Remember that function templates do not work like class templates, in that the compiler tries to ''guess'' exactly which template to create each time a function is called, based on the arguments & stuff. The compiler could find a conflict between the user-defined default and the arguments.