On 21 March 2012 11:49, Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now a real one: auto type inference. Could you possibly imagine what > the type name should be on the left-hand side? > > ? x = retro(stride(chain([1, 2], [3, 4]), 2)); > > Who knows. auto is great for these higher-level types.
Also when dealing with complex parameterized types, so when I have a function that gives me the type foo!(bar!(int, 5), baz!string) I don't have to know that, I can just use `auto` instead. -- James Miller