Re: [Quantlib-dev] [QuantLib-svn] SF.net SVN: quantlib: [13854] trunk/QuantLib/ql/interestrate.hpp

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

On Dec 19, 2007, at 8:02 PM, na...@us... wrote:
> Log Message:
> -----------
> added default parameters
>
> @@ -45,8 +45,8 @@
>          InterestRate();
>          //! Standard constructor
>          InterestRate(Rate r,
> -                     const DayCounter& dc,
> -                     Compounding comp,
> +                     const DayCounter& dc = Actual365Fixed(),
> +                     Compounding comp = Continuous,
>                       Frequency freq = Annual);
>          //@}
>          //! \name conversions

Nando,
	somehow I can see that the compounding may default to Continuous, but 
why should the day-count convention default to actual/365?

Later,
	Luigi