On 2/10/11, spir <denis.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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).
auto is great for rapid prototyping. And so are templated functions. After I'm satisfied with the functionality of my code I usually replace much of my use of auto with the actual type (mostly variable declarations). auto is still useful in templates, where writing a return type can be complicated.
