ixid:
How does that address my question? I didn't suggest the
replacement or removal of syntax.
I think your suggestion is not so useful because in many cases
you don't want to use "auto". To justify the introduction of a
new syntax it needs to cover many usage cases, or to do something
that before was impossible/hard to, or bug prone, or very long to
write, or very inelegant, etc.
With other people I have suggested to introduce a syntax like:
int[$] array = [1, 2, ....many more....];
This is useful because counting the items manually is boring and
bug-prone.
Bye,
bearophile
