auto: useful, annoying or bad practice?

[Atila Neves]

On Monday, 30 April 2018 at 21:31:48 UTC, Giles Bathgate wrote:
> On Monday, 30 April 2018 at 21:11:07 UTC, Gerald wrote:
>>[...]
>
> It takes some getting used to. Type inference is useful because 
> often you don't care/know, or want to type out the full name of 
> the type for every variable. It does, however, assume that the 
> developer can also do type inference (when/if you need to know 
> the type). When it's not clear what the type is by looking at 
> the right-hand side perhaps the codebase has bigger problems.
>
> functions that return auto are a bit odd IMHO, that is a 
> feature unique to D.

C++14 would beg to differ. As would any language with 
Hindley-Milner type inference.

Atila