Initialization of the Associative arrays

BCS ao at pathlink.com
Tue Jul 15 08:36:50 PDT 2008


Reply to Bill,

>> I think much of this might come from the need to be able to eyeball
>> parse the code
>> 
>> auto a = [ .... 16 different function calls ...];// what is the type
>> of a?
>> 
> Who cares what the type is as long as it's sufficient to hold the
> results of all those function calls?  If you cared you wouldn't have
> been using auto there.
> 

"Who cares" is correct. Maybe not the guy who wrote it, but 6 months down 
the line it might crop up and make a big difference to someone else ("what 
overload is this using?", "Why can't I cast to X", "at what point will this 
overflow", etc.)




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