Automatic typing

[Ivan Kazmenko]

On Saturday, 29 June 2013 at 03:20:27 UTC, JS wrote:
> I don't disagree with you and I'm not saying auto is not 
> useful. IMO though, auto is almost all convenience and very 
> little to do with solving errors.
>
> A very simple use case is:
>
> auto x = 0;
> ...
> x = complex(1, 1) + x;
>
> which obviously is an error.

Let me expand the example with this:

auto x = 0;
complex y;
...
x = complex(1, 1) + x; // ouch, I meant the next line!
y = complex(1, 1) + x;

Personally, I appreciate the strengths of static typing here, 
forcing me to choose which of the two behaviors I meant instead 
of silently picking one of them.

Ivan Kazmenko.