On Saturday, 29 June 2013 at 03:20:27 UTC, JS wrote:
I don't disagree with you and I'm not saying auto is not
useful. IMO though, auto is almost all convenience and very
little to do with solving errors.
A very simple use case is:
auto x = 0;
...
x = complex(1, 1) + x;
which obviously is an error.
Let me expand the example with this:
auto x = 0;
complex y;
...
x = complex(1, 1) + x; // ouch, I meant the next line!
y = complex(1, 1) + x;
Personally, I appreciate the strengths of static typing here,
forcing me to choose which of the two behaviors I meant instead
of silently picking one of them.
Ivan Kazmenko.
