On Sunday, 23 December 2012 at 22:41:56 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
You say auto helps with refactoring. I say not using it helps
with
catching bugs. It comes down to a question of what you value
more,
your time while coding, or your time while debugging.
Or even just reading code, which is what programmers spend most
of their time doing.
When reading code, you want things to be both clear and succinct.
With long (or inexpressible) type names, using auto makes the
code more succinct, but for simple types like int, bool, or
structs/classes with short names, it's far more clear to just use
the type name.
I don't buy the refactoring argument. Refactoring is rare.
Refactoring gains are not worth compromising readability.
