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[Ethan]

On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 17:06:03 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> Type inference itself isn't bad, but the auto in documentation 
> is something I agree isn't great.

My hot take after years of explicit typing (remember manual for 
iterator loops in C++?) and more D metaprogramming than most is 
that "auto is perfect for things you don't intend the user to 
store".

Since that's all that anti-auto arguments come down to here - the 
only rational reason you need to know the return type of a 
function is that you intend on storing it somewhere. And that's 
kinda pointless with ranges returned by std.algorithm for example.

Perhaps there's actually a design win to be had here if we can 
define nostore or something like that as a return qualifier...