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Re: Almost Always Auto? (was Re: Substitution failure can be an

From boltar@nowhere.co.uk
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: Almost Always Auto? (was Re: Substitution failure can be an
Date 2019-11-23 17:23 +0000
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On 23 Nov 2019 09:29:01 GMT
Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> wrote:
>On Fri, 2019-11-22, Vir Campestris wrote:
>> On 19/11/2019 11:48, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
>[...]
>
>> That's interesting. That sound as if you're on my side of the "almost 
>> always auto" argument I've heard bandied about - not least by the guy 
>> who owns our coding standards :(
>
>"Use auto everywhere, and let your IDE tell you what the type is with
>a tooltip".  I remember asking about that here some years ago -- what
>people thought of that advise.  I don't remember a clear outcome, except
>someone predicted we'd see a few years of auto abuse, followed by a
>backlash.

Its pretty stupid advice since not everyone uses or wants to use an IDE.
If find they just get in the way and offer little over a decent programmers
editor and standard command line tools on *nix. And as for Visual Shitshow on 
Windows, god almighty , how does anyone use that obtuse piece of garbage 
without going insane.  

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Substitution failure can be an error "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-11-18 18:49 +0100
  Re: Substitution failure can be an error Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2019-11-18 21:54 +0000
  Re: Substitution failure can be an error Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2019-11-18 18:12 -0500
  Re: Substitution failure can be an error Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2019-11-19 03:53 +0000
    Re: Substitution failure can be an error "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-11-19 12:48 +0100
      Re: Substitution failure can be an error Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2019-11-19 19:48 +0000
        Re: Substitution failure can be an error "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-11-19 21:31 +0100
          Re: Substitution failure can be an error Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2019-11-19 21:20 +0000
            Re: Substitution failure can be an error "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-11-19 22:51 +0100
              Re: Substitution failure can be an error Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2019-11-19 21:58 +0000
            Re: Substitution failure can be an error David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-11-20 09:19 +0100
              Re: Substitution failure can be an error Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2019-11-20 02:16 -0800
                Re: Substitution failure can be an error scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-11-20 14:13 +0000
                Re: Substitution failure can be an error Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2019-11-20 08:34 -0800
                Re: Substitution failure can be an error David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-11-21 12:34 +0100
                Re: Substitution failure can be an error Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2019-11-21 05:29 -0800
                Re: Substitution failure can be an error David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-11-21 15:58 +0100
          Re: Substitution failure can be an error Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2019-11-20 11:12 +0100
            Re: Substitution failure can be an error Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2019-11-20 04:25 -0800
              Re: Substitution failure can be an error Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2019-11-20 06:05 -0800
      Almost Always Auto? (was Re: Substitution failure can be an error) Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2019-11-22 21:46 +0000
        Re: Almost Always Auto? (was Re: Substitution failure can be an error) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2019-11-23 09:29 +0000
          Re: Almost Always Auto? (was Re: Substitution failure can be an boltar@nowhere.co.uk - 2019-11-23 17:23 +0000
          Re: Almost Always Auto? (was Re: Substitution failure can be an error) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-11-28 12:46 -0800
        Re: Almost Always Auto? (was Re: Substitution failure can be an error) "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-11-24 00:26 +0100
          Re: Almost Always Auto? (was Re: Substitution failure can be an error) "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-11-24 00:28 +0100
          Re: Almost Always Auto? (was Re: Substitution failure can be an error) "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-11-24 00:45 +0100
          Re: Almost Always Auto? (was Re: Substitution failure can be an boltar@nowhere.co.uk - 2019-11-24 10:47 +0000
            Re: Almost Always Auto? (was Re: Substitution failure can be an Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2019-11-24 13:37 +0000
              Re: Almost Always Auto? (was Re: Substitution failure can be an boltar@nowhere.co.uk - 2019-11-25 11:08 +0000
  Re: Substitution failure can be an error Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2019-11-20 18:46 +0100
    Re: Substitution failure can be an error "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-11-21 06:02 +0100
      Re: Substitution failure can be an error Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2019-11-21 15:50 +0100

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