On 02/10/2011 06:43 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"bearophile"<bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote in message news:iivb5n$na3$1...@digitalmars.com...auto x; if (localtime().hours>= 8) { x = "awake!" } else { x = "asleep, go away." } log "I'm " + x;That would be really nice to have in D. There's been many times I've needed to move a declaration up one scope from its initialization and was therefore forced to get rid of the "auto". Not a major problem obviously, but that sure would be nice.
I don't like that at all. The second main feature of staticity if self-doc code. How is one, as a reader, supposed to guess what x is and means? I'm not a great fan of auto, neither, use it would happily live w/o it, except for functions operating on ranges, that return types coming from who-knows where (certainly another planet).
Denis -- _________________ vita es estrany spir.wikidot.com
