D's auto keyword

[Walter Bright]

dsimcha wrote:
> One underappreciated thing auto gives is DRY for types.  It makes it easier to
> change the type of some object in the place where it's initially decided, because
> those changes will automagically be propagated to everything that uses that
> object, as long as the new type supports the same compile-time interface as the
> old type.


I consider that a *major* advantage to auto.