Re: Default arguments in function callbacks not taken into account when instantiating templates has huge security implications

[Wyatt via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 at 10:38:24 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:

void main()
{
    auto safeCallback = (string user, string pass = "hunter2")
    {
        writefln("The password is: '%s'", pass);
    };
I'm sorry, but can you explain how this lets an attacker learn 
anything useful?  I think it's a funny trick, and I agree on 
principle that it's probably an error that should be fixed, but 
I'm having trouble coming up with reasons why being able to 
discover the default argument (which I would assume is sentinel 
junk) has gravity.  I would generally consider literal 
assignments in code to be trivially compromised anyway?

-Wyatt