Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 17:49:18 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 07:32:22 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> What do you mean "D does not provide a decltype"?
>>
>> typeof(cx) my_cx2 = cx;
>
> I'll blame this on my poor knowledge of C++, at this time 
> typeof in C++ does not appear to compile, in the way I'm trying 
> to use it. I thought using typeof in C++ would result in the 
> same answer as the deduction auto provides.
>
> From that point of view, there is no need for decltype, because 
> typeof already gives you the actual type in D (which will be 
> the same as the type at declaration).

I think you've misunderstood him. You say in the article "D does 
not provide decltype", he is saying that this is misleading: D 
does but it's just called typeof instead.