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ninkendo on Aug 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: C++14 lambda tutorial

But they had a decent justification: the auto keyword literally did nothing in C++. The only place it was valid, it was also the default.

danielweber on Aug 28, 2014 [–]

IIRC they audited a bunch of projects to see if anyone was using auto somewhere besides test code explicitly for the auto-keyword, and found nothing.

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