Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: overuse of auto is dangerous Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:17:45 +1300 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <0c4e967e-1063-4530-a029-4c125b325c07@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net x/EZk/S4zZkyCPLRL0izrwTBl424xGCSS0lEMe41sDm/TPe7Mn Cancel-Lock: sha1:6wDXanerQUNmGsN21ETN5aymDBs= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 In-Reply-To: <0c4e967e-1063-4530-a029-4c125b325c07@googlegroups.com> Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:72251 On 13/03/2020 14:16, Daniel wrote: > On Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 8:57:31 PM UTC-4, Ian Collins wrote: >> On 13/03/2020 12:27, jacobnavia wrote: >> >> Overuse of ice cream is dangerous but we still use it... >> > Indeed, but it would be nice if it _could_ be used safely everywhere, > irrespective of whether we chose to use it. But it can't, it doesn't work when > functions return proxies. Ice cream always works! -- Ian.