On Monday, 9 December 2019 05:27:06 PST Roland Hughes wrote: > auto will be removed though. A bad idea that cannot be fixed. So were > trigraphs and digraphs. > > There is a dramatic falsehood behind the philosophy of always using the > latest and "coolest" language "features" because they get removed. How > many are compiling code forcing c++11 with deprecation warnings turned > off because they have a big codebase using std:auto_ptr. > > The same will happen to auto. A bad idea that can't be fixed.
Trigraphs were removed because they had bad semantics. Digraphs were not removed and they are still allowed in C++. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15736282/what-is-this-smiley-with-beard-expression/15736293 As for auto, you're making a prediction based on absolutely no knowledge of the committee. I don't know who you've been talking to, but those of the committee *I* have been have shown absolutely no indication of wanting to remove auto. So even if you're right (and I don't think you are), it's not going to be deprecated at least until C++26, which means we have some 12 years before we'd have to stop using it. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel System Software Products _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
