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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2019-11-24 09:09, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:

> > I also dislike auto, except in the case of stl::’s overly-verbose 
> > iterators.  Again, they make the code harder to read more often than 
> > not.
>
> I'm seriously rethinking typedefs as well.  I can never seem to 
> remember
> the type they represent so I have to dig around the source to figure 
> out
> the actual type.  I'm thinking just typing out the full type is easier
> in the shortened typedefed version which was most likely only created 
> to
> save some typing.

I generally like both of these.  But part of that is because my IDE (VS 
Code and sometimes Eclipse) shows me the underlying type when I mouse 
hover over the auto variable.  Same thing with type aliases.  If I 
needed to dig for them or remember, I would definitely come down in the 
other camp.

-Seth

Seth Hillbrand
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