auto in library functions

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/23/12 9:13 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> On Sunday, 23 December 2012 at 22:41:56 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> You say auto helps with refactoring. I say not using it helps with
>> catching bugs. It comes down to a question of what you value more,
>> your time while coding, or your time while debugging.
>
> Or even just reading code, which is what programmers spend most of their
> time doing.
>
> When reading code, you want things to be both clear and succinct. With
> long (or inexpressible) type names, using auto makes the code more
> succinct, but for simple types like int, bool, or structs/classes with
> short names, it's far more clear to just use the type name.
>
> I don't buy the refactoring argument. Refactoring is rare.

In the words of Dwight Schrute: false.

Andrei