On 8/20/18 9:15 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
I tend to use type inference liberally, almost always with const/immutbale locals, though I tend to use auto only when the type name is longer than four characters. For me, it's a nice way to save keystrokes. Some take a dim view of that approach and prefer to use it only when they actually require type inference. I mostly program alone, though, and I have a number of habits others may label 'bad', so I'm happy with my approach.
I'm more extreme in this camp -- I use auto everywhere. Why? because at some point, I may change some type somewhere (oops, I should have wrote size_t instead of uint), and then I would have to go through and change all the places I put the concrete type if I hadn't used auto.
While using functions, I also can use auto and not have to worry about the type. I know kind of what it is (integer type, string type, range type, etc), and not care what the exact type is.
-Steve
