auto: useful, annoying or bad practice?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 06:56:13PM +0000, Chris M. via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 11 May 2018 at 18:44:25 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 04:57:05PM +0000, Mark via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > > [...]
> > 
> > This makes me wonder if it might be useful to have return-type
> > constraints.  A kind of static out-contract?  Something that's part
> > of the function declaration, that ensures that the return type
> > satisfies certain properties.
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Coincidentally, over in Rust...
> 
> https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/05/10/Rust-1.26.html

Great minds think alike. :-D

(Or fools seldom differ?)


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