On Monday, 30 April 2018 at 21:11:07 UTC, Gerald wrote:
Speaking for myself, I dislike the auto keyword. Some of this is because I have a preference for static languages and I find auto adds ambiguity with little benefit. Additionally, I find it annoying that the phobos documentation relies heavily on auto obscuring return types and making it a bit more difficult to follow what is happening which gives me a bad taste for it.
I'm of the same opinion. I think auto (or var in other languages) obscures the types and requires an IDE to reveal what the real type is (hopefully the IDE can figure it out). But it seems we are in minority. Even Java is adopting auto (called var there) and everyone is cheering for that :)
