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[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 16:50:20 UTC, Laust wrote:
> The lukewarm response and the type inference argument make me 
> sad.

Type inference itself isn't bad, but the auto in documentation is 
something I agree isn't great.

So I recently wrote this thing:
http://dpldocs.info/experimental-docs/arsd.mvd.mvd.html


It originally said:

auto mvd(alias fn).......

and then I changed it to:

CommonReturnOfOverloads!fn mvd(alias fn).......


just because I wanted the return type to be a little bit clearer. 
And you can use the helper thing externally too which is 
sometimes useful.

But it could just as well have said /// Returns: common type of 
overloads of the passed function

sooooo idk, just I kinda see the point and have avoided `auto` 
for exactly that reason myself sometimes.