Question

Is there a way to “tell” a method with optional parameters to use the default values, beyond omitting the parameter? I imagine the syntax would look something like this:

DoSomething(myParam: default)                         //calling the method

public void DoSomething(int myParam = 5) { ... }      //method definition

The reason for doing this is to avoid ambiguity between an overload of this method that takes no parameters. In other words, I don’t want this method to be called:

public void DoSomething() { ... }

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you don’t want the user to call the DoSomething method that takes no parameters, just make it private like so:

private void DoSomething();