On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually in our case (as you know) we have SCARY iterators, so > multimap::iterator is a typedef, and the actual type is > std::_Rb_tree_iterator<std::pair<const Foo, Bar>> which is even less > useful to know! Exactly. One of the key reasons why we added "auto" to C++11 was NOT to mimic Hindley-Milner systems. It was to abstract over this type of noise. People should not use "auto" just because they can, or because it vaguely looks like something from a previously known programming language, or because it is the new kid on the block.
