Vote for the new std.hash (oops, std.digest)

[Manu]

Looks good, though one thing annoys me as always throughout the D docs,
liberal use of auto can make them very difficult to understand.

auto result = hash.finish();

>From the examples where this appears, I have absolutely no idea what
'result' could possibly be and what I can do with it, and you're forcing me
to go and dig further for that information (waste of time).
Surely there would be no harm in just writing the type there for clarity?

<rant>
I'd personally like to see auto abolished, or at least heavily discouraged
for the sake of clarity from code examples throughout the docs. I'm
constantly having to chase up what auto's may resolve to when reading
examples >_<
You may argue this demonstrated un-idiomatic code, and my trouble is due to
inexperience; I ask, who is most likely to be reading docs?


On 26 August 2012 04:54, Oleg Kuporosov <Oleg.Kuporosov at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Oleg
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