Set default value for functions or methods params

[francknouama]

Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

1.7.4

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOOS="darwin"

What did you do?

N/A: Not an issue, more a request for an additional feature

What did you expect to see?

I was expecting the language to allow to define default value for function parameters as we can do with python and scala

What did you see instead?

This feature is not available

[bradfitz]

Sorry, Go does not support this.

For questions about Go, see https://golang.org/wiki/Questions.

For language change proposals, see https://github.com/golang/proposal/ but be aware that Go 1 is pretty frozen at this point.

[francknouama]

thanks @bradfitz