Some more template syntax sugar
Walter Bright
newshound at digitalmars.com
Tue Aug 29 01:22:19 PDT 2006
Reiner Pope wrote:
> I think function templates still require too much in the way of type
> annotations. Take the canonical example, sqr:
>
> T sqr(T) (T x)
> {
> return x*x;
> }
>
> In this example, we have to declare T three times, even though I think
> this could be inferred. I propose an alternative syntax:
>
> auto sqr(x)
> {
> return x*x;
> }
>
> which IMHO looks very elegant.
I know. The problem is that it is indistinguishable from:
typedef int x;
auto sqr(x);
i.e. when x is a typedef and no parameter name is given, or when x is a
parameter name and no type is given.
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