Delegate Literals + Immutability, pure and closures

dsimcha dsimcha at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 30 06:56:56 PDT 2011


On 9/30/2011 9:01 AM, Christophe wrote:
> If the common type is obvious, the programmer can just type it.

What if it's ridiculously long and verbose?

> If not,
> I do not want to rely on the compiler to perform implicit casting to a
> type that I don't even know, and where I might loose informations,
> unless there is an unambiguous and error-free way to determine the comon
> type. I prefer the compiler to complain about an ill-defined return type
> than a compiler making uncontrolled casting to a type I don't even know.
> If auto return type has to be improved, it must be using a very safe and
> clearly defined behavior.

I was thinking it would work the same way as the ?: operator does.


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