Re: Most needed/desired features in C++

From: mfdylan (dylan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-18 17:43:21

--- In boost_at_y..., "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_m...> wrote:
> From: "Daniel Frey" <daniel.frey_at_a...>
> >>>
> IMHO the question is: If we have your typeof, can we write a class
> 'auto' that doesn't require any further language support?
> <<<
> 
> No, but we can write a macro. ;-)
> 
> Frankly, I see nothing wrong with 'let', or 'auto', or 'dcl', or 
however it
> ends up (hopefully) being called. Why should we try to achieve the 
same
> effect with some other means? There's no point.

Presumably though it would only be auto for auto variables...you 
could also use register or static if you so wanted.
Essentially this is reintroducing implicit typing that was present in 
C89 (although of course it was always int).  Unfortunately a large 
number of C++ compilers still support it as int but I would hope this 
wouldn't cause too many confusion.

I would against be introducing either 'let' or 'dcl' as keywords, I 
know I have used both those as variable names at some point in the 
past, even though most of work (dictacted by company policy) uses 
uppercase letters in variable names.

Dylan