auto is surely a nice feature. Nonetheless I'd prefer to use
explicit types. So when reading a code and I see the auto keyword
I also have to find out what kind of type is meant.
I have a line of code that looks like this:
auto elements = buf.to!string.strip.split(" ").filter!(a => a !=
"");
That line strips white space from buf, splits it, removes empty
elements and returns an array of strings. At least I thought so.
Indeed elements can be treated as a string slice, but if i
replace auto by string[] the compiler complains:
Error: cannot implicitly convert expression
filter(split(strip(to(buf)), " ")) of type
FilterResult!(__lambda1, string[]) to string[]
In order to use an explicit type I wonder what kind of type I
might use instead of auto?
