Is this a well known design pattern? What is its name?

Question

I have seen this often in code, but when I speak of it I don\'t know the name for such \'pattern\'

I have a method with 2 arguments that calls an overloaded method t

Answer 1

No, this is not a design pattern in the gang of four sense, but it is common in many languages that do not allow default parameters.

In a language like ruby you could do something similar as follows

  def dowork(name, phoneNumber, emailAddress = '')
    # code here
  end