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Default arguments are faked via an extra function or constructor with an extra `Int` as the first argument that's basically a bitset of parameters that were actually passed.

weird, I'd have automatically created another constructor.. anyway, I just done it manually and it works, thanks

That gets out of hand quickly if you have a couple of default parameters, and it doesn't work at all when they overlap.

It looks like for functions the name of the synthetic function has `$default` appended so it doesn't conflict, but for constructors that's not possible.

Maybe they could have gone with a factory function but that probably complicates reflection a lot.