auto: useful, annoying or bad practice?

[Dgame]

On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 at 00:01:42 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Now, all that said, using auto for a function signature's 
> return type shouldn't usually be done, except in very careful, 
> specific "voldemort type" kinds of situations (and even then, I 
> dont see a real big point).

I do it all the time because of attribute inference. D has way to 
many attributes, so I'm willing to automatically let the Compiler 
interfere which are appropriate, he knows it better anyway.