cppfront (Herb Sutter's idea in CppCon)

[Olivier Pisano]

On Monday, 14 November 2022 at 13:57:34 UTC, XavierAP wrote:
> Of course you want to automate and get rid of const auto & 
> const overloads, copy-move Hell etc, this is a different topic 
> and the main benefit that Herb seems to be going after. But as 
> for teaching C++ programmers to declare name: type = instead of 
> type name = etc, is it a good idea?

It enables syntax for functions to be the same as for lambdas, 
eliminating a special case, so yes, it is a good idea.