auto*
bauss via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jul 6 17:23:23 PDT 2017
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 23:51:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 11:50:24PM +0000, bauss via
> Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>> Let's say you have.
>>
>> auto a = foo();
>>
>> You have no idea what auto actually is in that case, but
>>
>> auto* a = foo();
>>
>> You know auto is a pointer of whatever foo returns.
>
> Ah, I see. So if foo() doesn't return a pointer it will be a
> compile error? So it's basically a kind of self-documentation?
>
>
> T
That's my understanding yeah.
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